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Asked: 2026-06-03T13:44:37+00:00

Someone is creating erroneous links by adding a question mark and random characters to

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Someone is creating erroneous links by adding a question mark and random characters to random pages on my website in the following format:

I have found a block rule for robots.txt but need a stronger htaccess solution. I am looking for a htaccess rewrite rule that can remove the ? and everything following it from any URLs, redirecting the visitor to the original URL.

I’ve found solutions to remove, for example, ?id=123 but when id= isn’t there I haven’t found a solution.

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  1. Editorial Team

    The following two rules check for the presence of query string and redirect to the no-query string version of the page:

    RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !=""
RewriteRule ^(.*) /$1? [R,L]

    Since you are worried about search engines crawling wrong version of page, consider changing to R=301 once you’ve tested. Also, you might want to consider returning a 404 error to discourage the use of query strings and tell the search engines that there is no such thing as http://mydomain.com/page/?1234.

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