HTACCESS 301 redirect URL with query string with no request URI

Question

I have a site that has a bunch of URLs indexed in Google that look like this -

I am trying to redirect all of these to a new URL in HTACCESS with this code -

RewriteCond   %{REQUEST_URI}    ^/$
RewriteCond   %{QUERY_STRING}   ^option=filter$
RewriteRule   ^(.*)$ /new-url.html [R=301,L]

Of course it is not working. On all of the pages that have a filename I can use in the request uri condition, the redirects work. What am I missing?

anubhava · Accepted Answer · 2014-04-07 18:34:03Z

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It is not working due to the wrong regex pattern in your rule.

Try this rule as your very first rule in root .htaccess:

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^option=filter(&|$) [NC]
RewriteRule ^$ /new-url.html? [R=301,L]

answered Apr 7, 2014 at 18:34

anubhava

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