Currently, I’m using Redirection plugin in WordPress to redirect all URLs that contain question mark in this way:
Source: /(.*)?(.*)$
Target: /$1
This works well. It will redirect any link with a ?, such as /good-friends-are-great.html?param=x to /good-friends-are-great.html.
However, now I need to make an exception. I need to allow /friends to pass GET parameters, e.g. /friends?guest=1&event=chill_out&submit=2 OR /friends/?more_params, without the parameters being truncated.
I have tried modifying the regular expression in the plugin to:
Source: /(?!friends/?)?(.*)$
Target: /$1
But this didn’t work. With the above expression, any link with ? is no longer redirected.
Can you help? Thank you in advance.
PS: Sorry if this is a duplicate question. I’ve searched this website for similar questions but based on what I’ve read, I still can’t piece together the right solution.
Source: regex
