mod_rewrite: query string gets lost on rewrite

Question

I have limited .htaccess knowledge and requires some help. I need to redirect all page request to www.newdomain.com except for www.olddomain/page.json but the query string get d

Answer 1

You need to add [QSA] and optionally [NE] which should give you:

RewriteRule (.*) http://newdomain.com/$1 [QSA,NE,R=301,L]

Answer 2

Use the [QSA] flag ("query string append")