On 10/4/2012 11:32 AM, Bhattacharya, Sudip wrote: > Hi Sridhar, > > This would apply to the whole virtual host. I need to enable it for specific subfolders. Something like this should work: RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} =/folder/xmlfiles/static.xml RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !="" #The ? at the end causes the %{QUERY_STRING} to be omitted #from %{REQUEST_URI} during rewriting. RewriteRule ^(.*)$ %{REQUEST_URI}? [R=301,L] If any mod_rewrite expert has suggestions or revisions, please jump in. > -----Original Message----- > From: sridhar basam [mailto:sridhar.basam@xxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2012 9:00 PM > To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: How to strip out the query parameter for specific URLs using mod_rewrite? > > On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 11:03 AM, Bhattacharya, Sudip <sudip.bhattacharya@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I am trying to configure caching for a website using apache proxy. >> >> Some of the URLs are using a random parameter in the URL to avoid caching. >> >> The URL would look like this: >> http://foo.com/folder/xmlfiles/static.xml?rand= 0.36176968908944995 >> >> The xml files are static files, but the application attaches a random number at the end to disable caching. I need to remove the rand parameter to enable caching, without modifying the original application. >> >> There would be other URLs which would have valid query strings, so I need to limit the rewrite operation to the specific xmlfiles folder urls. >> >> Some of the examples on internet seems to be removing the query string from all requests. > > The module already supports it for you, you need to just enable it. > > http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/mod/mod_cache.html#cacheignorequerystring > > > Sridhar > > > >> >> Regards, >> Sudip Kumar Bhattacharya --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx