.htaccess remove query string, keeping SEO style url

Question

Question:

Is it possible to clear the %{QUERY_STRING} without breaking any functionality of what I\'ve accomplished in my .htaccess fil

Answer 1

Try:

RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} \?[^\ ]+
RewriteRule (.*) /$1? [R=301,L] #remove query string

You need to match against the actual request because you're building a query string with these rules:

# To internally rewrite directories as query string
RewriteRule ^([^/=]+)=([^/]*)(/(.+))?\/?$ /$4?$1=$2 [N,QSA]
RewriteRule ^([^/=]+)/([^/=]+)(/(.+))?\/?$ /$4?$1=$2 [N,QSA]
RewriteRule ^([^/=]+)(/(.+))?\/?$ /$3?$1 [N,QSA]

When these rules loop around, the %{QUERY_STRING} variable will have stuff in it and your rules will clobber them. If you match against the actual request, your rewrites won't get affected.