正则表达式RedirectMatch删除问号和查询字符串参数

Question

I have a Joomla site that no longer users a calendar component, and I need to redirect all the old URLs back to the homepage. The URL's look like this...

http://www.example.com/week/?date=2006-03-05&print=1&tmpl=component
http://www.example.com/week/?date=2010-09-12
http://www.example.com/week/?date=2007-04-01&print=1&tmpl=component

I've tried writing a RedirectMatch in the .htaccess file to remove everything after the domain, but I am only able to remove week/ from the URL, the question mark and parameters remain. This presents issues with certain parameters which remove the template, modules or format the page for printing.

Can anyone suggest a solution? Here is what I've tried so far...

RedirectMatch 301 ^/week/\?.* http://www.example.com
RedirectMatch 301 ^/week/\?(.*) http://www.example.com
RedirectMatch 301 ^/week/\?+.+ http://www.example.com
RedirectMatch 301 ^/week/\?+(.*) http://www.example.com

And the same rules without the opening caret...

RedirectMatch 301 /week/\?.* http://www.example.com
RedirectMatch 301 /week/\?(.*) http://www.example.com
RedirectMatch 301 /week/\?+.+ http://www.example.com
RedirectMatch 301 /week/\?+(.*) http://www.example.com

Answer 1

Edit:

For url:

http://example.com/week/?date=2010-09-12

Could you try this rule:

 RewriteEngine on
 RewriteRule ^.*week/?$ www.example.com [R]

Answer 2

Yo may try this:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^.*/week/$
RewriteRule .*   http://www.example.com/? [R=301,DPI,L]

Will remove the part of the URI starting at /week and the QUERY STRING, leaving only:

http://www.example.com/

UPDATED:

Added [DPI] flag to make sure the path is removed.