Comments on: RewriteRule: How to avoid passing query string when you redirect.

By: Olly

Olly — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 01:00:28 +0000

you’re doing the right thing (apart from using RedirectMatch, as Brian wrote) with the ‘?’.
So its supposed to pass the querystring per default, if no ‘?’ is given.

That information is somehow hidden in the documentation:
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_rewrite.html

I copied that part out of there:

Note: Query String

The Pattern will not be matched against the query string. Instead, you must use a RewriteCond with the %{QUERY_STRING} variable. You can, however, create URLs in the substitution string, containing a query string part. Simply use a question mark inside the substitution string, to indicate that the following text should be re-injected into the query string. When you want to erase an existing query string, end the substitution string with just a question mark. To combine a new query string with an old one, use the [QSA] flag.

By: Sunny Walia

Sunny Walia — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 19:07:06 +0000

You are right Brian. I should’ve used this. I wonder if I would have the same problem.

Thanks.

By: Brian Moon

Brian Moon — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 15:56:47 +0000

For starters, you are using mod_rewrite where it is not needed. In this case, I would use the RedirectMatch directive.

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_alias.html#redirectmatch

mod_rewrite is quite heavy and you should avoid it when there are better, lighter weight directives to be used.