What's the htaccess code fro this please

[astoller]

I have
https://www.example.com/123.html?language=en
https://www.example.com/123.html
for all the products in my site

Can you give me an htaccess code to send all of the parameter strings
with "?language-english" to the basic url without parameters?
Thanks
Art

[♥JcMagpie]

Note I have not tested this!!

but have a look at this

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16378326/remove-directory-after-main-url-using-htaccess

[♥JcMagpie]

or if you are up for testing 😊 try somthing like this

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^yourste.com/en [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.yourste.com/en [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.yourste.com/$1 [L,R=301,NC]

[♥JcMagpie]

.htaccess can be tricky so it's best to keep a list of useful redirects

 

#301 Redirects for .htaccess

#Redirect a single page:

Redirect 301 /pagename.php http://www.domain.com/pagename.html

#Redirect an entire site:

Redirect 301 / http://www.domain.com/

#Redirect an entire site to a sub folder

Redirect 301 / http://www.domain.com/subfolder/

#Redirect a sub folder to another site

Redirect 301 /subfolder http://www.domain.com/

#This will redirect any file with the .html extension to use the same filename but use the .php extension instead.

RedirectMatch 301 (.*)\.html$ http://www.domain.com$1.php

##

#You can also perform 301 redirects using rewriting via .htaccess.

##

#Redirect from old domain to new domain

RewriteEngine on

RewriteBase /

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

#Redirect to www location

RewriteEngine on

RewriteBase /

rewritecond %{http_host} ^domain.com [nc]

rewriterule ^(.*)$ http://www.domain.com/$1 [r=301,nc]

#Redirect to www location with subdirectory

RewriteEngine on

RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} domain.com [NC]

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.domain.com/directory/index.html [R=301,NC]

#Redirect from old domain to new domain with full path and query string:

Options +FollowSymLinks

RewriteEngine On

RewriteRule ^(.*) http://www.newdomain.com%{REQUEST_URI} [R=302,NC]

#Redirect from old domain with subdirectory to new domain w/o subdirectory including full path and query string:

Options +FollowSymLinks

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/subdirname/(.*)$

RewriteRule ^(.*) http://www.katcode.com/%1 [R=302,NC]

Rewrite and redirect URLs with query parameters (files placed in root directory)

Original URL:

http://www.example.com/index.php?id=1

Desired destination URL:

http://www.example.com/path-to-new-location/

.htaccess syntax:

RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} id=1

RewriteRule ^index\.php$ /path-to-new-location/? [L,R=301]

Redirect URLs with query parameters (files placed in subdirectory)

Original URL:

http://www.example.com/sub-dir/index.php?id=1

Desired destination URL:

http://www.example.com/path-to-new-location/

.htaccess syntax:

RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} id=1

RewriteRule ^sub-dir/index\.php$ /path-to-new-location/? [L,R=301]

Redirect one clean URL to a new clean URL

Original URL:

http://www.example.com/old-page/

Desired destination URL:

http://www.example.com/new-page/

.htaccess syntax:

RewriteEngine On

RewriteRule ^old-page/?$ $1/new-page$2 [R=301,L]

Rewrite and redirect URLs with query parameter to directory based structure, retaining query string in URL root level

Original URL:

http://www.example.com/index.php?id=100

Desired destination URL:

http://www.example.com/100/

.htaccess syntax:

RewriteEngine On

RewriteRule ^([^/d]+)/?$ index.php?id=$1 [QSA]

Rewrite URLs with query parameter to directory based structure, retaining query string parameter in URL subdirectory

Original URL:

http://www.example.com/index.php?category=fish

Desired destination URL:

http://www.example.com/category/fish/

.htaccess syntax:

RewriteEngine On

RewriteRule ^/?category/([^/d]+)/?$ index.php?category=$1 [L,QSA]

Domain change – redirect all incoming request from old to new domain (retain path)

RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example-old\.com$ [NC]

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.example-new.com/$1 [R=301,L]

If you do not want to pass the path in the request to the new domain, change the last row to:

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.example-new.com/ [R=301,L]

#From blog.oldsite.com -> www.somewhere.com/blog/

retains path and query, and eliminates xtra blog path if domain is blog.oldsite.com/blog/

Options +FollowSymLinks

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}/ blog

RewriteRule ^(.*) http://www.somewhere.com/%{REQUEST_URI} [R=302,NC]

RewriteRule ^(.*) http://www.somewhere.com/blog/%{REQUEST_URI} [R=302,NC]

[ArtcoInc]

@astoller

Do you want to ADD the "?language=en", or REMOVE it?

M

[astoller]

Artcolnc : i want to remove it 

JC Magpie :thanks fro this library

[MrPhil]

You want to remove it from links being produced by your store, or from incoming URLs? I think that it comes from someone using the "select language" feature in osC. Is some search engine indexing this Query String, and it's overriding your (non-English) users' choice? Removing language= on incoming URLs could result in disabling the ability to choose a language (if you have multiple languages enabled), so be careful about doing that.

Perhaps there is a way to persuade search engines not to index with that language= Query String? I'm not sure how to do that on the osC side of things. Maybe language selection could be disabled for certain User Agents?

[astoller]

The string (1) looks like this
example.com/123.html?lang=en

This is in google's index along with the stripped down url
string (2)
example.com/123.html

Both in the index cause a duplication problem.( 700 times over for every prodcut)
I can have htaccess redirect (1 )to (2)
Would that affect the functiuonality of oscommerce?

 

[Guest]

Use  a 302 redirect for testing, change it to 301  when you know it's working the way you want.

[MrPhil]

Take a look at https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11539981/htaccess-301-redirect-rule-to-remove-part-of-a-query-string-from-urls-but-leave, before it does any SEO stuff like rewriting to dynamic URL format. It tells how to remove a single term=value entry from your URL Query String (which could end up being the entire thing, including the "?").