capture rewrite for every after question mark

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> Thanks for suggestion appa, i apply what said to try and results in a
"Redirection Loop".

> Hello,
>
> I have found the following while searching it is the only one i can
> get working with my config setup
> to send a 301 permanently if "/index.php" is directly accessed.
>
>
> if ($request_uri ~* ^(/home(/index)?|/index(.php)?)/?$)
> {
> rewrite ^(.*)$ / permanent;
> }
>
>
> GET http://www.example.com/index.php 301 Moved Permanently
> GET http://www.example.com/ 200 OK
>
> ---------------------------------------
> above works as expected.
>
> But, now if i have the following results as 200 OK as expected.
>
> http://www.example.com/index.php?randomvalue 200 OK
>
>
> So how do you rewrite that if there is a question mark and or value
> that follows "/index.php?" then returns 301.
>
> GET http://www.example.com/index.php?randomvalue 301 Moved
> Permanently
>
> GET http://www.example.com/ 200 OK

> Try:

> location = /index.php {
> return 301 /;
> }

Update,

I am using 

	if ($request_uri ~* ^/index.php(.*)$){
	   rewrite ^(.*)$ / permanent;
	}
        
       The above resuls as which dose the 301 moved permanently with the
exception of retaining the the question and the the value. 

I guess from a search engines point of view its see's the 301 Moved
Permanently so in that case it ok, but it would be nice to not retain
the "?randomvalue".

       http://www.example.com/index.php?randomvalue  301 Moved
Permanently
       http://www.example.com/?randomvalue  200 OK

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