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Not sure where to start on this one…

We’re finding that any links that feature a querystring redirect to a 404. So for example a Google Adwords link that might look lik http://www.domainname.com/?gclid=CIaz2IWC8qsCFUNO4QodNBHSwg goes to a 404 instead of the home page.

Is there a way to tell EE to ignore anything from ? and beyond?

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This is happening because you are using mod_rewrite to hide index.php from your URLs with an .htaccess file.

You can tack this on to the bottom of your .htaccess file and it will catch incoming Google campaigns and redirect them properly to your front page.

# Catch incoming Google campagins

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/$
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^(gclid=*)
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php?/$1 [L]

I suspected it might be something like this, but I was barking up the wrong tree looking at the Structure module and it’s URLs.

Thanks Jonathan, I’ll give this a try.

Thanks for the assist, Jonathan.

Russ, this is just a bit beyond the scope of official support, so moving this thread to the Community Help forum.

The above rewrite works for the home page, but on any other URL I still get a 404. Any ideas?

This is fine:
http://domain.com/?gclid=adsadadasdasasd

As is this:
http://local.myredlandroof.com/some/url/

This 404s:
http://local.myredlandroof.com/some/url/?gclid=adsadadasdasasd

As does this:
http://local.myredlandroof.com/some/url?gclid=adsadadasdasasd

This is because the default $config[‘uri_protocol’] is set to AUTO.  This looks first for the uri path as a query string and if you use the above rewrite it will find more than it needs there if you are using other query string variables.

I suggest you use this rewrite:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d 
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php/$1 [L]

And change the uri_protocol to either PATH_INFO or REQUEST_URI.  This setting will largely depend on the configuration of the server that you are on.

Thanks the3mus1can.

I already have that rewrite in place courtesy of the NSM .htaccess Generator add-on. However switching to uri_protocol to PATH_INFO nailed it.