htaccess query

[sarahA]

Can anyone tell me why the following may not work?

Code:

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^sitemap.php?id=(.*)$ http://www.domain.co.uk/sitemap.php [L,R=301]

tyvm

[JasonD]

\?

Otherwise it only matches sitemap.phpid= or sitemap.phid=

You need to (.*)$ to capture the end unless you use plan on using it in a back reference.

[Jeewhizz]

You can't match a question mark on a rewriterule...

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} .
RewriteRule ^sitemap.php /sitemap.php? [L,R=301]

That should do something similar.

[sarahA]

Thanks for the comments. I'd tried your method too Jason, it still didn't work, but Jee's method does.

Just out of interest how easy would it be to just drop one specific variable from the URL eg index.php?a=1&b=2 to just index.php?b=2 ?

It's a potential future question