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I would like to redirect pagination of my Joomla homepage from https://example.com/index.php?start=5 to the root (https://example.com/) without impacting other pagination in website (ie: https://example.com/news.html?start=5 or https://example.com/categories.html?start=5).

I am able to redirect the https://example.com/?start=5 to https://example.com/ without impacting the rest of the pagination of the site with the following rule:

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^start=([0-9]*)$ [NC]

RewriteRule ^$ https://example.com/$1? [R=301,L]

However it is impossible for me to redirect with the inclusion of index.php (https://example.com/index.php?start=5) without impacting the rest of the pagination of the site. I tried with the following rule:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/index.php$

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^start=(.*)$

RewriteRule ^index.php$ https://example.com/ [R=301,L]

but this impacts the rest of the pagination of the site like https://example.com/news.html?start=5 redirect to /.

Do you have any idea to do this kind of redirect ?

Here is my curent .htaccess :

IndexIgnore *



## Can be commented out if causes errors, see notes above.

Options +FollowSymlinks

Options -Indexes



## Mod_rewrite in use.



RewriteEngine On



## Begin - Rewrite rules to block out some common exploits.

# If you experience problems on your site block out the operations listed below

# This attempts to block the most common type of exploit `attempts` to Joomla!

#

# Block out any script trying to base64_encode data within the URL.

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} base64_encode[^(]*([^)]*) [OR]

# Block out any script that includes a <script> tag in URL.

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (<|%3C)([^s]*s)+cript.*(>|%3E) [NC,OR]

# Block out any script trying to set a PHP GLOBALS variable via URL.

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} GLOBALS(=|[|%[0-9A-Z]{0,2}) [OR]

# Block out any script trying to modify a _REQUEST variable via URL.

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} _REQUEST(=|[|%[0-9A-Z]{0,2})

# Return 403 Forbidden header and show the content of the root homepage

RewriteRule .* index.php [F]

#

## End - Rewrite rules to block out some common exploits.



## Begin - Custom redirects

#

# If you need to redirect some pages, or set a canonical non-www to

# www redirect (or vice versa), place that code here. Ensure those

# redirects use the correct RewriteRule syntax and the [R=301,L] flags.

#



## Redirect index.php to https root ###############################

RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} !^POST

RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9} /index.php HTTP/

RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT}>s ^(443>(s)|[0-9]+>s)$

RewriteRule ^index.php$ https://%{HTTP_HOST}/ [R=301,L]

###################################################################

## End ############## Utiliser "http%2://" pour http & https ######



## Rewrite (http & https)

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST}#%{HTTPS}s ^www.([^#]+)#(?:off|on(s)) [NC]

RewriteRule ^ https://%1%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L]

###################################################################

## End ############## Utiliser "http%2://" pour http & https ######





RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING}  ^start=([0-9]*)$ [NC]

RewriteRule ^$ https://%{HTTP_HOST}/$1? [R=301,NE,NC,L]



# RewriteBase /



## Begin - Joomla! core SEF Section.

#

RewriteRule .* - [E=HTTP_AUTHORIZATION:%{HTTP:Authorization}]

#

# If the requested path and file is not /index.php and the request

# has not already been internally rewritten to the index.php script

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/index.php

# and the requested path and file doesn't directly match a physical file

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f

# and the requested path and file doesn't directly match a physical folder

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

# internally rewrite the request to the index.php script

RewriteRule .* index.php [L]

#

## End -  core SEF Section.



## FORCE HTTPS ######################################################

RewriteCond %{HTTPS} OFF

RewriteRule (.*) https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L]

#####################################################################