RedirectMatch: Remove question mark - .htaccess

I'm redirecting an old website to a new URL using RedirectMatch. (I don't need to preserve the original query string, hence the "?" at the end).
RedirectMatch 301 ^/cms/index.php$ http://www.mysite.com?
The redirect works, however I'm left with an ugly question mark at the end URL after being redirected:
www.mysite.com?
Is there any way to remove it?
Edit: I'm throwing in the .htacces file I'm using at the moment:
RedirectMatch 301 ^/cms/index.php$ http://www.mysite.com?
# BEGIN WPSuperCache
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
AddDefaultCharset UTF-8
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} !POST
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !.*=.*
RewriteCond %{HTTP:Cookie} !^.*(comment_author_|wordpress_logged_in|wp-postpass_).*$
RewriteCond %{HTTP:X-Wap-Profile} !^[a-z0-9\"]+ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP:Profile} !^[a-z0-9\"]+ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP:Accept-Encoding} gzip
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/wp-content/cache/supercache/%{HTTP_HOST}/$1/index.html.gz -f
RewriteRule ^(.*) "/wp-content/cache/supercache/%{HTTP_HOST}/$1/index.html.gz" [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} !POST
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !.*=.*
RewriteCond %{HTTP:Cookie} !^.*(comment_author_|wordpress_logged_in|wp-postpass_).*$
RewriteCond %{HTTP:X-Wap-Profile} !^[a-z0-9\"]+ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP:Profile} !^[a-z0-9\"]+ [NC]
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/wp-content/cache/supercache/%{HTTP_HOST}/$1/index.html -f
RewriteRule ^(.*) "/wp-content/cache/supercache/%{HTTP_HOST}/$1/index.html" [L]
</IfModule>
# END WPSuperCache
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^mysite.com$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ "http\:\/\/www\.mysite\.com\/$1" [R=301,L]
# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress
EDIT: In the end I got it working using anubhava suggestion. BUT I had to make a separate .htaccess file in the /cms folder.

Better use mod_rewrite using code like this:
Options +FollowSymLinks -MultiViews
# Turn mod_rewrite on
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^cms/index\.php$ http://www.mysite.com/? [L,R=301,NC]

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.htaccess redirect all pages of old site to same pages on a subdirectory of a different site

I need to redirect all pages of an old site to a subdirectory of our main site. E.g.:
oldsite.com/page1
to
mainsite.com/oldsite/page1
I have tried adding the following to the top of .htaccess
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^oldsite.com$
RewriteCond (.*)$ http://www.mainsite.com/oldsite/$1 [R=301,L]
</IfModule>
When I open a fresh anonymous window, the redirect does not work, even on the homepage. So it is probably another rule getting in the way. The following is at the bottom of the .htaccess file:
# BEGIN W3TC Page Cache core
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} =on
RewriteRule .* - [E=W3TC_SSL:_ssl]
RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} =443
RewriteRule .* - [E=W3TC_SSL:_ssl]
RewriteCond %{HTTP:X-Forwarded-Proto} =https [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [E=W3TC_SSL:_ssl]
RewriteCond %{HTTP:Accept-Encoding} gzip
RewriteRule .* - [E=W3TC_ENC:_gzip]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_COOKIE} w3tc_preview [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [E=W3TC_PREVIEW:_preview]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} !=POST
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} =""
RewriteCond %{HTTP_COOKIE} !(comment_author|wp\-postpass|w3tc_logged_out|wordpress_logged_in|wptouch_switch_toggle) [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} \/$
RewriteCond "%{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/wp-content/cache/page_enhanced/%{HTTP_HOST}/%{REQUEST_URI}/_index%{ENV:W3TC_SSL}%{ENV:W3TC_PREVIEW}.html%{ENV:W3TC_ENC}" -f
RewriteRule .* "/wp-content/cache/page_enhanced/%{HTTP_HOST}/%{REQUEST_URI}/_index%{ENV:W3TC_SSL}%{ENV:W3TC_PREVIEW}.html%{ENV:W3TC_ENC}" [L]
</IfModule>
# END W3TC Page Cache core
# BEGIN WordPress
# The directives (lines) between "BEGIN WordPress" and "END WordPress" are
# dynamically generated, and should only be modified via WordPress filters.
# Any changes to the directives between these markers will be overwritten.
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule .* - [E=HTTP_AUTHORIZATION:%{HTTP:Authorization}]
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_ACCEPT} image/webp
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} (.*)\.(jpe?g|png)$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}\.webp -f
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !type=original
RewriteRule (.+)\.(jpe?g|png)$ %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.webp [T=image/webp,E=accept:1,L]
</IfModule>
<IfModule mod_headers.c>
Header append Vary Accept env=REDIRECT_accept
</IfModule>
Any ideas on what I should change to achieve my desired result?:
oldsite.com/page1
to
mainsite.com/oldsite/page1
Solved!
I removed all the rewrite rules that were already in there, apart from the wordpress one.
I then used this rule instead of the one I originally posted:
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^oldsite.com$ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.oldsite.com$
RewriteRule (.*)$ http://www.mainsite.com/oldsite/$1 [R=301,L]
</IfModule>

do not redirect for certain file

I have the following htaccess file. I do not want to perform a redirect from https to http on a certain file. how can i achieve this?
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.spectrumasa.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.spectrumgeo.com/$1 [R=301,L]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^intranet.spectrumasa.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.spectrumgeo.com/ [R=302,L]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.asb.com.au$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.spectrumgeo.com/ [R=301,L]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.spectrum-geopex\.com\.eg$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.spectrumgeo.com/spectrum-geopex [R=301,L]
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} on
RewriteRule (.*) http://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L]
</IfModule>
# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !=/server-status
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress
I would like to access only the following through https http://www.spectrumgeo.com/wp-content/uploads/Spectrum_logo_email-171w.jpg
Add a condition to your rule:
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/wp-content/uploads/Spectrum_logo_email-171w\.jpg$
RewriteRule (.*) http://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L]
You can have something complex in picking with to redirect to https:// from http:// but you can accomplish a simple redirect on a single file via this method.
RewriteEngine
Redirect http://www.spectrumgeo.com/wp-content/uploads/Spectrum_logo_email-171w.jpg https://www.spectrumgeo.com/wp-content/uploads/Spectrum_logo_email-171w.jpg
This will solve accessing only the above url you have through https://

Mistakes in htaccess redirects?

I am a beginner with htaccess stuff and need help checking for mistakes in my htaccess codes below ?
I have 3 set of redirect codes and wondering if they interfere with each other ?
Also wondering if I have redundant redirect code.
Also specifically within the "Stop Hotlinking Code", is this RewriteCond correct?
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www\.)%{HTTP_HOST}/.*$ [NC]
My goal is to KEEP the www and trailing slash for my URLs , and to remove the index.html for my URLs
Here is my .htaccess File
# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress
#Force Trailing Slash
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(.*)/$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.%{HTTP_HOST}/$1/ [L,R=301]
#Redirect non-www to www
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\. [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.%{HTTP_HOST}/$1/ [R=301,L]
#Redirect index.html
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^.*/index.html [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)index.html$ http://www.%{HTTP_HOST}/$1/ [R=301,L]
#Stop Hotlinking
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www\.)%{HTTP_HOST}/.*$ [NC]
RewriteRule \.(gif|jpg|jpeg|bmp|zip|rar|mp3|flv|swf|xml|php|png|css|pdf)$ - [F]
.
Edit:
Questions:
-Is my updated htaccess below correct?
-Do I put RewriteBase / at the top or keep it as is (one with the # Begin WordPress rules and a second RewriteBase / with # Force Trailing Slash ?
-Do I need Options +FollowSymLinks and if yes where do I put this?
Notice that I:
-removed the RewriteEngine On and RewriteBase / from WordPress rules and kept it at the top
-put WordPress Rules BELOW redirects
-removed end slashes for #Redirect non-www to www and #Redirect index.html
RewriteEngine On
# Redirect non-www to www
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\. [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [R=301,L]
# Redirect index.html
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^.*/index.html [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)index.html$ http://www.domain.com/$1 [R=301,L]
# Force Trailing Slash
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(.*)/$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.%{HTTP_HOST}/$1/ [L,R=301]
# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress
# Stop Hotlinking
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www\.)domain.com/.*$ [NC]
RewriteRule \.(gif|jpg|jpeg|bmp|zip|rar|mp3|flv|swf|xml|php|png|css|pdf)$ - [F]
No it's not correct. You can't have % variables or back references in the regex part of the condition. You could use a regex backreference though. Try:
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST}:::%{HTTP_REFERER} !^([^:]+):::http://(www\.)\1/.*$ [NC]

htaccess - redirect to ignore nested subdirectory and if possible make entire site non-www

I have an issue that's too complex for me to handle, but I'm betting someone has had to do this before, so please let me hear from you. ;)
Here's the situation:
I've got 1 main domain with 3 subdirectories that are nested within each other
(from top to bottom)
http://main-domain.com
then
http://main-domain.com/company-name/
then
http://main-domain.com/company-name/blog/
There's currently 3 .htaccess files -- 1 in each of the 3 directories shown above.
What's the problem?
Instead of having www.main-domain.com/company-name/blog/whatever, I'd like to have main-domain.com/blog/whatever
So, I want to drop the www AND more importantly, drop the middle subdirectory; i.e. /company-name/
I hope that the following examples will help to illustrate the point.
http://main-domain.com/company-name/index.php should be changed to http://main-domain.com/index.php
http://main-domain.com/company-name/blog/my-first-article/ should be changed to http://main-domain.com/blog/my-first-article/
Why do I need this?
I need a shorter URL that is more SEO-friendly. I have too many backlinks that use the 'old' urls, so I need to mod-rewrite them all.
Here are My Current 3 htaccess files
root htaccess: main-domain.com
#Bypass InoCore Templating System
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /reservations/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /reservations/default.php [L]
Options -Indexes
</IfModule>
#END Bypass
#301 REDIRECT
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^info.php - [L]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.domain1.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.main-domain.com/company-name/$1 [R=301,NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^domain1.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.main-domain.com/company-name/$1 [R=301,NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.domain2.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.main-domain.com/company-name/$1 [R=301,NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^domain2.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.main-domain.com/company-name/$1 [R=301,NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.domain3.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.main-domain.com/company-name/$1 [R=301,NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^domain3.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.main-domain.com/company-name/$1 [R=301,NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^main-domain.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.main-domain.com/company-name/$1 [R=301,NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.main-domain.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.main-domain.com/company-name/$1 [R=301,NC]
company-name htaccess: main-domain.com/company-name/
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^maping.php /maping.php
RewriteRule ^$ index.php?$1 [L]
RewriteRule (.*) index.php?$1 [L]
#php_flag magic_quotes_gpc off
#BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /company-name/
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /company-name/index.php [L]
</IfModule>
#END WordPress
blog htaccess: main-domain.com/company-name/blog/
RewriteEngine off
#BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /company-name/blog/
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /company-name/blog/index.php [L]
</IfModule>
#END WordPress
Your correct and compact root .htaccess should be like this:
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^info.php - [L]
# match all the domains in single condition while www. is optional
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?(domain1|domain2|domain3|main-domain)\.(com|tld)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^company-name/(.*)$ http://www.domain.tld/$1 [R=301,L,NC,NE]
R=301 will redirect with https status 301
L will make last rule
NE is for no escaping query string
NC is for ignore case comparison
$1 is your REQUEST_URI matching group

Delete ugly ?pg=1 from URL via .htacess RewriteRule

I have pagination plugin in my CMS which produces ?pg=1 links. I want to redirect this url without this ugly postfix because without it CMS shows first page too.
So, i have url like http://site.ru/category/schock-crane/?pg=1 or http://site.ru/moyka/?type=granit&pg=1
I want to redirect such urls to http://site.ru/category/schock-crane/ and http://site.ru/moyka/?type=granit respectly.
I tried this .htaccess code
RewriteRule (.*)(&|\?)pg=1$ $1 [R=301,L]
I tried this regexp code at regexp trainers - it worked. But at live server no redirect happens.
Here is whole .htaccess file:
AddDefaultCharset Off
#DirectoryIndex index.php index.html
Options +FollowSymLinks
Options -Indexes
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
# fix /?pg=1
RewriteRule (.*)(&|\?)pg=1$ $1 [R=301,L]
# fix .palitra-tab
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} -tab$
RewriteRule (.*)/([0-9]*)/\.(.*)-tab?$ http://site.ru/redirect.php?id=$2 [R=301,L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/csss/.* [NC]
RewriteRule csss/(.*)\.css$ css.php?n=$1 [L]
#RewriteRule ^(.*)/csss/(.*) /test.php [L]
RewriteRule ^(.*)/base([0-9]+)/?$ $1?base=$2
#RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f
#RewriteRule \.(gif|jpeg|jpg|png)$ /images/watermark/index.php [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
RewriteRule ^(.+) - [PT,L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !=/favicon.ico
RewriteRule ^(.*) index.php
RewriteCond %{HTTP:Authorization} !^$
RewriteRule .* - [E=REMOTE_USER:%{HTTP:Authorization}]
</IfModule>
You need to use RewriteCond to examine the query string:
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^(([^&]*&)*)pg=1(&(.*)|$)
RewriteCond %1%4 (.*?)&?$
RewriteRule ^ %{REQUEST_URI}?%1 [R=301,L]
The second RewriteCond is just to remove a trailing &.
Maybe the missing ^ or / kills the redirect
# fix /?pg=1
RewriteRule ^(.*)(&|\?)pg=1$ /$1 [R=301,L]
or try
RewriteRule ^(.*)(&|\?)pg=1$ http://%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [R=301,L]

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