Strip parms from URL and 301

[Karma]

Hi,

I'm finding multiple instances in Google WMT reports where my URLs are having parameters added, such as:

mydomain.tld/widget/blue/?pagewanted=all

Without going in to why these parameters are there, is there any way I can easily 301 these back to the correct URL?

So...

mydomain.tld/widget/blue/?pagewanted=all

will 301 back to...

mydomain.tld/widget/blue/

[edited by: Karma at 8:55 am (utc) on Jul 1, 2011]

[lucy24]

Could you do that again using example.com? When I read the obfuscated address off the bottom of my browser window, it says
../widget/blue/<b>?pagewanted=all</b>
and it would be nice to know if those are your own bold tags or google's.

Yes, it's trivial to make a RewriteRule that simply chops off the query string if it isn't supposed to be there. A final question mark on the target side means "get rid of the query". (On the input side it's a standard RegEx question mark. And inside [brackets] it's a literal question mark. I hope someone is paying it overtime.)

[Karma]

Fixed :)

[Karma]

How would I go about doing this? Simple as possible please

[g1smd]

Let's see your two lines of mod_rewrite code for discussion...

I assume you'll have a RewriteCond testing THE_REQUEST and a RewriteRule with [R=301,L] flags.