capture rewrite for every after question mark

[token]

token Wrote:
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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


Final Update,  Resolved

	if ($request_uri ~* ^/index.php(.*)$){
		rewrite ^(.*)$ /? permanent;
	}

Seems to work now

Posted at Nginx Forum: http://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,219385,219392#msg-219392