Rewriting "?" At Beginning of URL

[kevsh]

I'm at my wit's end with this one, and I've searched everywhere without help. Google has indexed my home page as:

[mydomain.com...]

and I want to redirect this to:

[mydomain.com...]

I'm not even sure how it grabbed this URL so I'm hoping to rewrite *any* numerical variable (i.e.?cat=[0-9])

The actual "home page" file is index.php if that is a factor.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions!

[jdMorgan]

I'm not sure whether you want/need to drop the query strings from index.php as well, so here are two rules, preceded by the required "setup":

 
Options +FollowSymLinks -MultiViews
RewriteEngine on
#
# Remove any query string from "/"
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} .
RewriteRule ^$ http://www.example.com? [R=301,L]

-or-

# Remove any query string from "/" or "index.php"
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} .
RewriteRule ^(index\.php)?$ http://www.example.com? [R=301,L]

If you have other working rewriterules, then you may not need the "setup" stuff. However, if you don't have a working knowledge of mod_rewrite, I strongly suggest you review the documents cited in our forum charter [webmasterworld.com] and the tutorials in the Apache forum section of the WebmasterWorld library [webmasterworld.com] before trying to use this code.

Jim

[kevsh]

The first example worked fine, thanks!