need simple htaccess code

i moved from an old script to a new script and many of the old pages are backlinked and indexed in google.. the old script is GONE so i need to redirect anything that comes into the website from these old links to the home page.

an example of an old page - www.website.com/show.php?show=single&id=2156. there may be hundreds of these that all start with www.website.com/show.php?

how do i redirect them all to the home page without having to list every one of them in my htaccess file.

 

I too need this , can anyone please help with this ?

 

anyone??? the info found on the net is all too confusing..

 

You can use http://htaccessredirect.net/index.php

This site will create the code that you can paste in .htaccess file

Let me know if this help. Otherwise i will provide you the exact code.

 

nice site but it doesn't help me with 'wildcarding' files.. for example there are hundreds of files that start with '/show.php?' and i'd like to redirect them all to one page..

 

I have the same problem above, can anyone help us?

Thanks

 

To redirect all such links to your home page you can add this to your .htaccess file:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^
RewriteRule ^show\.php$ /? [L,R=301]
redirect 301 /show.php http://www.website.com/

Code (markup):

Lines 1-2 you don't need if you already have those in your .htaccess file, so make sure to check that first.
Lines 3-4 take all queries on your show.php script and 301 redirect all to / (your site index) and cut off queries.
Line 5 redirects all direct hits to show.php without queries to your index page.

Cheers.