How to match only part of URL and redirect URL with parameters in .htaccess?

Question

I have a number of links with similar structure:

example.com/index.php/path/some-path/some-subpath?parameter=1

Which I want to redirect just to example.com/category/

But I want to match only the URL-path, ie. /index.php/path/some-path/some-subpath, because the query parameter is irrelevant.

I have tried the following rule:

RewriteRule ^/index.php/path/some-path/some-subpath?parameter=\dd\? /category/ [L,R=301]

Answer 1

If the query string is irrelevant then it can simply be ignored. (You can't match the query string anyway with the RewriteRule directive.)

Try the following in your root .htaccess file to redirect the request:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^index.php/path/some-path/some-subpath$ /category/? [L,R=301]

In per-directory .htaccess files, the URL-path matched by the RewriteRule pattern has the directory-prefix removed. In other words, it does not start with a slash, ^index.php.... instead of ^/index.php.....

The ? on the end of the RewriteRule substitution is required in order to remove the query string (if any) from the request. Otherwise parameter=1 will be passed through and appended to the target URL.

This will match any query string, including an empty one.

Answer 2

Answer by @MrWhite did not worked for me. Here is what is working with my Wordpress site.

Example:

OLD URL: http://website.com/xxx/yyy/picture.png
NEW URL: http://website.com/wp-content/picture.png

So, I want to replace /xxx/yyy/ with the normal /wp-content/ path of WordPress.

Put this in your .htaccess file.

RewriteEngine on
RedirectMatch 301 /xxx/yyy/(.*) http://website.com/wp-content/$1