i have site there both url are working as follow
https://domainname/abc
https://domainname//abc
so i just want to redirect //abc to 404 error page for preventing duplicate content i try following rule but didn't work.
RewriteRule ^//(.*)$ 404
ErrorDocument 404 https://domain_name/404
i also try using RedirectMatch as follow
<IfModule mod_alias.c>
RedirectMatch 404 ^//(.*)$ https://domain_name/$1
</IfModule>
I have my site: https://stackoverflow.com/ and a subdomain https://foo.stackoverflow.com/.
My folder public_html/foo has subfolders:
public_html/foo/folder_1
public_html/foo/folder_2
public_html/foo/folder_3
Now, my public_html/.htaccess file
Options -Indexes
ErrorDocument 403 /403.php
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^403.php$ https://foo.stackoverflow.com/ [R=301]
The rule above, works fine when I access https://stackoverflow.com/foo/folder_1 the page is redirected to https://foo.stackoverflow.com/ BUT when I access https://foo.stackoverflow.com/folder_1 the page is not redirected and the default 403 error page is displayed.
What can I change in my public_html/.htaccess file, to solve this problem?
Please, I want a minimalist solution.
I want to redirect all pages on my site (including index) to 404 using htaccess.
Thanks in advance.
You can use this rule in root .htaccess file:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^ - [R=404,L]
The following works on newer apache:
Redirect 404
And you can add a message without creating a file like this:
ErrorDocument 404 "Hmm... There's nothing here..."
A quick question. I want to use a php file that will deliver pages based on the url. I am using htacess to deal with the error docs but my question is to do with SEO. If I redirect a 404/403 request to pageDispacher.php that then delivers the correct page will the header be a 404/403 at any point? As this is not cool. Do I need to use a rewrite rule instead?
In which case is there is a genuine 404 page how would i return a 404 header?
www.example.com > www.example.com/en/home
www.example.com/en/ > www.example.com/en/home
ErrorDocument 404 /pageDispacher.php
ErrorDocument 403 /pageDispacher.php
This is usable:
RewriteRule ^error error.php [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^(.*)\.php$ error[L,QSA]
I want to redirect any 403 using .htaccess, but it does not seem to work.
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
ErrorDocument 403 notfound.html
RewriteRule notfound.html
All help appreciated.
Thanks
Jean
The URL part of an ErrorDocument directive should either start with a leading slash, which indicates a path that's relative to your DocumentRoot, or it should be a full URL (if you want to use an external document).
You shouldn't need the RewriteEngine and RewriteRule directives at all here.
So, assuming your notfound.html is at the root level of your site, your directive should look like:
ErrorDocument 403 /notfound.html
I found a problem with the earlier example, which was:
ErrorDocument 403 /notfound.html
I have a directory on my site storing images, say at domain.com/images
I wanted that if someone tries accessing the directory's URL that they be redirected to the site's homepage. My problem was, with the above, that the URL in the browser would remain domain.com/images and then the homepage would load, but the homepage would reference stylesheets that it could not access from that URL. (And it makes sense - 403 is supposed to show an error message).
I then tried researching how to redirect a 403 error to another URL and a few sites said you can't do a 302 or 301 - you're missing the point: 403 is an error, not a redirect.
But I found a way. This is the .htaccess file inside the /images directory:
Options -Indexes
ErrorDocument 403 /images/403.php
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^403.php$ /index.php [R=301]
So basically the first line prevents directory listing.
The second line says that for "permission denied" (ie. 403 error, which is what the first line gives), the site should load the file "/images/403.php". But you don't actually need to create any 403.php file in that directory, because...
The third line turns on your redirect engine
And the fourth line says that if the user attempts to load the page 403.php (ie. in this "/images" directory where this .htaccess file is located) then they should be redirected, using a 301 (permanent) redirect, to /index.php - which is the index of the root directory (ie the homepage), and not the index of the /images subdirectory (and indeed there is no index in "/images" anyway).
Hence - how to get a 403 to redirect to another URL using a 301 (permanent) redirect (or, you could try a 302 temporary redirect too).
Here is a super easy way to do this:
Use this line
Options -Indexes
ErrorDocument 403 /goaway.html
where goaway.html contains the following line in the head section:
<meta HTTP-EQUIV="REFRESH" content="0; url=HERE YOU PUT THE URL YOU ARE REDIRECTING TO" />
And that's it... each 403 error will go to your goaway.html file in root directory and goaway.html will redirect them to the URL of your choice
RewriteEngine On
ErrorDocument 403 http://www.yourdomain.example/