Htaccess: remove query from urls and redirect

Question

I have a Forum on my site and need to redirect weirdly generated urls.

Every url contains ?id=, eg:

https://www.example.com/forum/topic/casualthread/page/25?id=casualthread

and I need to remove the ?id= and everything that follows in order to have:

https://www.example.com/forum/topic/casualthread/page/25

I am trying to modify this code I found here on Stackoverflow with very scarce results:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
# Make sure there is a query string
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} .
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule .*  /?id= [R=301,L]

The htaccess file i am editing is in the forum directory: https://www.example.com/forum/

and it redirects everything to the homepage https://www.example.com: what am I doing wrong?

No, google only found those I mentioned. Starkeen answer did the trick. — Sergiof4
– Sergiof4, Commented May 24, 2018 at 15:46

Amit Verma · Accepted Answer · 2018-05-24 15:39:03Z

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You can use this

RewriteEngine on


RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} id=
RewriteRule ^ %{REQUEST_URI}? [L,R]

answered May 24, 2018 at 15:39

Amit Verma

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Ωmega · Accepted Answer · 2018-05-24 16:21:53Z

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Since not just id, but also some other parameter(s) may be present in the query string, use:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^(.*)(^id=[^&]*&?|&id=[^&]*)(.*)$
RewriteRule ^(.+) /$1?%1%3 [R=301,L]

answered May 24, 2018 at 16:21

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