Remove url params from any URL on a site

[wildwill]

Hiya all

I have a site that has a small issue with duplicate content and I need to redirect page requests to remove the URL Params.

so direct any requests that have "?category_id=" and then any number after it, to the same url just without the URL params.

So:
[sitename.com...]

redirect to:
[sitename.com...]

Any ideas?

wW

[g1smd]

Use a RewriteRule. The RegEx pattern will match the path part of the URL request, and only the path part. The target of the Rule will be the new URL. Use a question mark to suppress parameters from being re-appended to the new URL. Add flags to force the 301 status and to make it the Last rule if the pattern matched.

You'll need a preceding RewriteCond. This will look at THE_REQUEST and match requests that include the path and parameter that you want to redirect.

It's a couple of lines of code, and there's many previous examples as this question comes up several times per month.

[wildwill]

Howdy g1smd thank you for your reply.

I am familiar with adding things to the .htaccess file, but do you have any examples of this rewriteRule?

[wilderness]

but do you have any examples of this rewriteRule?

The closing line of his reply.

It's a couple of lines of code, and there's many previous examples as this question comes up several times per month.

[wildwill]

ok thnx yall