Removing unwanted characters after extension

Question

I have pages that are called via a query strung from a cgi.

xyz.cgi?page=abc.html

The problem that I have is that I get bot requests for pages

Answer 1

You can use the following rule to remove chars after the html extension :

 RewriteRule ^(.+\.html).+$ /$1 [L,R]

This will redirect

/foo.htmlchars

to

/foo.html

Or

RedirectMatch ^/(.+\.html).+$ /$1

EDIT :

To redirect /xyz.cgi?page=foo.htmlchars to /xyz.cgi?page=foo.html you may using the following :

RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} /xyz\.cgi\?page=(.+\.html).+\sHTTP [NC]
RewriteRule ^ /xyz.cgi?page=%1 [L,R]