Remove ?q=old-page-name from redirect url

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Hi,

What seems to be an easy redirect turns out to be something I just can’t find online.

I want to move to another domain. So I created an redirect in my .htaccess:

redirect 301 /old-page https://newdomain.com/new-page

The redirect works but the url ends up https://newdomain.com/new-page?q=old-page

I just don’t understand why ?q= is added and how to remove it.

Googling for 3 hours, could not find nor the cause or the solution.

Hope you guys can help.

Kind,
Ilja

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Maybe instead of

redirect 301 /old-page https://newdomain.com/new-page

try using something like this:

RewriteRule ^old-page$ https://newdomain.com/new-page [R=301,L]
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Thanks, this is working.

Can you explain why the other method adds the strange ?q= variable?

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I’m not quite sure.

The q request variable gets added on this line
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?q=$1 [L,QSA]
and is necessary for MODX to work correctly.

And apparently this line still gets executed even after a matching redirect 301 ... rule.

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Ok, that’s seems to be the problem then.

Wondering if it’s by design or not.

Any way, thank, I will redirect by your method now.

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