Remove query strings only from specific URL's in htaccess (Apache)

Question

Currently I am trying to remove query strings from multiple different URL's.

What I am using at the moment to remove "?cp=true" is

RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} \?cp=true\sHTTP [NC]
RewriteRule ^ %{REQUEST_URI} [L,R,QSD]

However this removes that query string from all pages with that query string. I want to only target a specific page e.g.

(/folder/another-folder/this-page)

Another change I would prefer to do, however not essential is to be able to remove any query string and not just "?cp=true". How would I go about doing this.

Thanks

anubhava · Accepted Answer · 2017-06-26 15:26:25Z

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I want to only target a specific page e.g./folder/another-folder/this-page

In that case you can include this URL in your RewriteCond before ?:

RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} /folder/another-folder/this-page\?cp=true\sHTTP [NC]
RewriteRule ^ %{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=302,NE,QSD]

If you want to remove all query strings then use:

RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} /folder/another-folder/this-page\? [NC]
RewriteRule ^ %{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=302,NE,QSD]

edited Jun 26, 2017 at 15:26

answered Jun 23, 2017 at 12:27

anubhava

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Graham Over a year ago

Many thanks, that worked perfectly. One more question, I have URL's with only a ? in front of the URL. How would I go about removing the single question mark. An example URL is: /folder/another-folder/this-page? How can I change this to just "/folder/another-folder/this-page"

anubhava Over a year ago

I have edited 2nd rule. It will take care of empty ? as well.

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