Redirect in .htaccess when page numbers are both in a query parameter and in the path

Question

My blog is creating duplicate pagination, and Google understands this as duplicate content. How to 301 redirect pagination as in the following examples?

• https://example.com/page/33?page=34 to: https://example.com/page/33
• https://example.com/page/23?page=25 to: https://example.com/page/23

I need redirect all ?page= to your correct link /number

Recently, I was able to remove broken links ?m=0 with:

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^m=[01]$
RewriteRule (.*) /$1? [R=301,L]

Answer 1

This should do it:

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^page=[0-9]+$
RewriteRule ^/?(page/[0-9]+)$ /$1? [R=301,L]

When the query string has a page number in it like page=34 and the path is also a page number like /page/23, then redirect to remove the query string.

• [0-9]+ is one or more digits, ie a number
• ^ and $ are "starts with" and "ends with" respectively, the query string will only match if the page parameter is the only thing in it.
• ^/? is starts with an optional slash so that this rule can work in .htaccess or in apache conf files.
• () are capturing parenthesis whose contents are then available in $1