How to remove style=xx from url with .htaccess? - .htaccess

Could someone help me with a long time problem? Google is crawling a old style and it's messing up my page indexing.
The url is: http://www.mywebsite.com/forum/viewtopic.php?STYLE=54&f=182&t=3587
What I want to do is to remove "style=54".. is this possible? if so could someone help me with the code?

Try adding these rules to your htaccess file in your document root, above any rules you may already have:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^STYLE=[0-9]+&(.*)$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /$1?%1 [L,R=301]
This will redirect the browser to the same URI but with the STYLE=### part removed from the query string. So in your example, the browser would then load:
http://www.mywebsite.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=182&t=3587

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htaccess is working but does not replace the url

I'm trying to modify the subdomain name in the URL to make it look nicer. My current URL look something like:
www.mystore.com/productInfo.php?cPath=11_11&productID=222
So, I want to make it nicer by Rewrite in .htaccess in main with this code:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^productInfo/([0-9_-]+)/([0-9_-]+) productInfo.php?cPath=$1&productID=$2 [NC,L]
When I run and test it on the URL by typing www.mystore.com/productInfo/11_11/222 in the URL it works well. However, when this page is redirected by a different page or is 'refreshed' with a self redirecting a href= link(in which the link is written in php by the previous programmer), the above old link is still visible in the URL instead of the new one.
I am still a beginner while I suspect that I might need to change something in the cPanel/Apache(I think) for this but currently, I am still do not have access to the cPanel control. Is there anything that I might have missed to write in the .htaccess file or I really do need the cPanel control or any other reasons?
Any help is appreciated. Sorry that I could not find similar questions on this.
You can use the following :
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
#redirect /productInfo.php?cPath=foo&productID=bar to /productInfo/foo/bar
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} /productInfo\.php\?cPath=([0-9_-]+)&productID=([0-9_-]) [NC]
RewriteRule ^ productInfo/%1/%2? [L,R=301]
#rewrite new URL to the old one
RewriteRule ^productInfo/([0-9_-]+)/([0-9_-]+) productInfo.php?cPath=$1&productID=$2 [NC,L]

force index.php in url with htaccess

I've spent the last two hours reading stackoverflow and the apache manual trying to find a solution to this, but haven't found any, if a directory is access (http://domain.ext) I'd like to force index.php to appear in the url (http://domain.ext/index.php) if possible.
If anyone could help I'd really appreciate it, thank you.
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule index.php
you can use this:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^$ /index.php?
(but you will not see it in a browser because the rewrite engine just directs to the correct file/directory without changing the url from the browser)
with [R] tag you can redirect the user so the new url would appear in the browser
I've just found what works for me
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^/?$ $1/folder/index.php$2 [R=301,L]

Using mod_rewrite to mask a directory/file name in a URL

I've taken my site down for some prolonged maintenance and am using mod_rewrite to send all requests to a single page: www.mysite.com/temp/503.php
This is my .htaccess file which works fine.
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/temp/503.php [NC]
RewriteRule .* /temp/503.php [R,L]
However, what I'd also like to be able to do is to hide /temp/503.php in the resulting URL from the visitor.
I know this is perhaps trivial and I'm sure fairly simple to achieve, but with my limited mod_rewrite skills I can't seem to get it to work.
Any help would be much appreciated.
Thanks.
Just get rid of the R flag in the rewrite rule, which tells the rule to redirect the request, thus changing the URL in the browser's location bar. So the rule would look like:
RewriteRule .* /temp/503.php [L]
which internally rewrites the requested URI instead of externally telling the browser that it's been moved to a new URL.

Htaccess remove query string & redirect to product

I try to remove/redirect the query string from this link:
http://www.myDomain.com/detail/link-526.html?fb_action_ids=10151931158951677&fb_action_types=og.likes&fb_source=aggregation&fb_aggregation_id=288381481237582
To get this link: http://www.myDomain.com/detail/link-526.html
Any help would be highly appreciate, thanks.
Try adding this in the htaccess file in your document root:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (^|&)fb_action_ids=
RewriteRule ^/?detail/link- %{REQUEST_URI}? [L,R=301]
Note that this redirects the browser if there's facebook query string stuff without any of it, but if the content of your page keeps adding it, the redirecting might loop.

RewriteCond appending querystring

I am using .htaccess file to redirect my archived old aspx urls to my new php site. Now the requirement is as follows:
example.com/showad.aspx?adid=1234 should be example.com/ad/getad/1234
I googled the matter and got the following htaccess rule:
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^adid=(\d+)$
RewriteRule ^showad\.aspx$ /ad/getad/%1
The rule works except that the resulting url is example.com/ad/getad/1234?adid=1234
I searched again and learned that to remove the (adid=1234) at the end of the output url you should place a question mark ? at the end of the substitution parameter, so that the rule should be:
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^adid=(\d+)$
RewriteRule ^showad\.aspx$ /ad/getad/%1?
But it doesn't work!
The resulting url is STILL having the original query string appended to it. I am using this site to test my htaccess rules: htaccess.madewithlove.be
Any clues why is this happening?
Try changing your rule to
RewriteRule ^showad\.aspx$ /ad/getad/%1? [R=302,L]
Your rule is fine - I just tested it in my own .htaccess. It's the htaccess tester website that's wrong :)

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