Wildcard redirect at end of url in .htaccess

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I couldn't find an accurate solution for this on SO.

I have a Wordpress site that needs any URL that contains /blog/?p* to redirect to /blog

The * denotes the wildcard point. So any URL that starts with /blog/?p gets redirected.

I've tried:

RewriteRule ^/blog/?p.*$ http://website.com/blog

But that didn't work.

If you mean `?p` as a query string and not a regex, that is not possible from a `RewriteRule` alone you will have to use a `RewriteCond` as well. — Prix, Jun 26 '14 at 16:10
Would it actually make more sense to use RedirectMatch 301 ? — bort, Jun 26 '14 at 16:23

score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited Jun 26 '14 at 18:17

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The pattern (the first argument of RewriteRule) only matches the part before the ? (the path). To match the part after the ? (the query string), you need to use a RewriteCond with %{QUERY_STRING}.

So for instance:

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^p
RewriteRule ^/?blog/ http://target

edited Jun 26 '14 at 18:17

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answered Jun 26 '14 at 16:15

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Wildcard redirect at end of url in .htaccess

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