301 Redirects Appending Query String?

Question

First time this has happend to me and I can't figure out how to fix my 301 redirects. The redirect is appending the rule to the end of destination/new url:

Redirect 301 /products.htm http//www.domain.com/products/

Redirects to:

http://www.domain.com/products/?/products.htm

The site is on a MediaTemple (dv) 4.0. My .htaccess file is:

## BEGIN Expression Engine Rewrite

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond $1 !\.(gif|jpe?g|png)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php?/$1 [L]

# END Expression Engine Rewrite

# Redirect to www
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^domain.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.domain.com/$1 [L,R=301]


#
# Old site URL 301 Redirects
#

Redirect 301 /products.htm http://www.domain.com/products/
# plus many more...

UPDATE:

Just wanted to add what I've tried with no success:

`$config['uri_protocol']    = 'AUTO'; // tried all 5 options. nothing seemed to change`

I tried appending ? to the end of the redirect, which removed the appending rule, but kept the ?:

Redirect 301 /products.htm http://www.domain.com/products/?

I have successfully setup redirects before in EE1, and referenced a site & noticed the rewrite rule for removing the index.php file didn't have the ? at the end. Is this something specific to EE2 or the server envirnoment as when I remove that I get the no input file specified error:

# EE1
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php/$1 [L]

Answer 1

Thanks for nudge Derek. I was totally unaware that the site was running as a FastCGI process. This is the default with (mt) dv 4.0 & Plesk 11.0.9 when creating new hosts. Which maybe explains other user's issues with removing index.php at MediaTemple

I switched it back to Apache and removed the ? from the rewrite rule and the redirects are working properly.

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php/$1 [L]

To change PHP support at MediaTemple (dv) 4.0, go to the domain in Plesk. Open the Control panel and click the website & domains tab. Click the advanced operations then Website Scription & Security. Select Apache from the PHP select menu.

Update For Fix w/PHP running as CGI process – 1/31/13

If PHP is running as CGI process and the query string ? is appended to the URL, you can use this rewrite rule instead of redirect:

RewriteRule ^old-url?/?$ http://www.website.com/new-url [L,R=301]

See comment below for reference article