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[quote][b]1635606397710295_7486 wrote:[/b][nl]RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^category=([0-9]*)&page=1 [nl]RewriteRule ^(.*)category=([0-9]*)&page=1$ https://www.example.com/?category=([0-9]*)%1 [R=302,L][nl]The RewriteRule pattern (first argument) matches against the URL-path only, not the query string. You are already matching the query string in the RewriteCond directive, so there's no need to do this twice anyway.[nl][nl]If there is no URL-path (ie. all requests target the document root) as per your examples then you can simplify the pattern and there is no need to capture the URL-path.[nl][nl]Including the regex ([0-9]*) in the substitution string (2nd argument) makes no sense. This is an "oridinary" string, not a regex.[nl][nl]Try the following instead:[nl][nl]RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^(category=d{1,2})&page=1$[nl]RewriteRule ^$ /?%1 [R=302,L][nl]Instead of capturing just the category value, we might as well capture the complete name/value pair and avoid repetition.[nl][nl]d is a shorthand character class and is the same as [0-9]. I've also changed this so that it matches just 1 or 2 digits (since you say you only have 12 categories). Using the * quantifier would allow an empty category parameter.[nl][nl]Note that this matches the document root only, as per your examples. ie. it won't match example.com/foo?category=1&page1. And only URLs that contain page=1 as a 2nd URL param.[nl][nl]You don't need to include the full absolute URL in the target, unless you want to include this as part of your canonical redirect.[/quote]