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Asked: 2026-06-05T12:44:33+00:00

The problem I’m having is querystrings persisting through a redirect. I.e., whenever I try

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The problem I’m having is querystrings persisting through a redirect. I.e., whenever I try and redirect a URL of type

RewriteRule ^oldsite/product/productname.aspx http://subdomain.newsite.com/product [L,R=301]

this works perfectly – no issues.

However, when I try this with anything with a querystring, such as:

RewriteRule ^oldsite/product/productname.aspx?=QUERYSTRING http://subdomain.newsite.com/product [L,R=301]

the redirect works, but I end up with the following result when I check it with a header checker:

http://subdomain.newsite.com/product?=QUERYSTRING

i.e. – it passes the querystring from the old URL, and I do not want it to.

I checked a bunch of resources but can’t seem to find a simple solution to this. Is there a flag I am missing within the square parameters brackets? (Sorry if I’m using the wrong terminology, new to mod_rewrite.)

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  1. Editorial Team

    If you append a ? to your target URL, the query string will be removed from the redirection:

    RewriteRule ^oldsite/product/productname.aspx http://subdomain.newsite.com/product? [L,R=301]
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