htaccess rewrite problem

Hi,

I am having trouble with a rewrite rule. I want to remove a certain query string "page=1&sort=featured" from any url on the site and I can't seem to get it working. This is the best I have come up with:

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^page=1&sort=featured$
RewriteRule ^([^\?]+)\?(.+)$ /$1 [R=301,L]

Code (markup):

I have been working on this all day and can't get it working. Please help.
Thanks.

 

If I do this:

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^page=1&sort=featured$
RewriteRule (.*) http://ip_address/$1? [R=301,L]

Code (markup):

then the page http://ip_address/dir1/dir2/?page=1&sort=featured redirects to http://ip_address/index.php/dir2/. So it removes the query string but instead of "/dir1" being in there it's "index.php" for some reason. Higher up in the code there is:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . index.php

Code (markup):

and I'm not sure if that is causing the index.php to go in there. It's kind of confusing that the (.*) doesn't match the entire url and only matches "/dir2" apparently. There is no RewriteBase defined and ip_address is because this is a dev environment.

 

It's a little confusing what you are trying to do. Can you start from scratch explaining your problem? Thanks.

 

Hi. I gave up on htaccess and did it in php and it's working. Thanks.

 

cool, glad to see it is working