We have a number of websites that have now been closed down and deleted however are still indexed in Google, even though they are returning a 404.
I want to set http 410 for everything on the domain, how would I do this in the htaccess? Use wildcards?
I want to set http 410 for everything on the domain
You can use this rule as your first rule in your DOCUMENT_ROOT/.htaccess file:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?domain\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^ - [L,R=410]
Don't forget to replace domain.com with your actual domain name.
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Our website is allowing any prefix/subdomain before the domain.
So if our site is www.domain.com, then the server is allowing;
www.anything.domain.com, where 'anything' can be literally anything, and it displays whatever is on the page that actually exists.
So, www.anything.domain.com/something.php displays the content that should only be accessible via www.domain.com/something.php.
Is there any way using .htaccess to stop this from happening, or redirect it to the version that does actually exist?
Or does this need to be done on the server?
Does anyone know why this is being allowed?
Ideally, this should be configured in server configuration files (also, you can configure DNS to simply not resolve unwanted hostnames, but that is for another question probably).
If you don't have access to server configuration, you can do it in .htaccess:
# to block access if any domain except example.com or www.example.com was used
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !=www.example.com
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !=example.com
RewriteRule ^ - [F]
or
# if any domain except example.com or www.example.com was used,
# redirect the request to www.example
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !=www.example.com
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !=example.com
RewriteRule ^ http://www.example.com%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301]
A client has asked us to replicate all the content from an old domain (bcsbd.com) to their main domain (ywcacam.org), and also create redirects so the old URLs are still functional. Unfortunately, the URLs aren't exact matches, e.g., [olddomain]/about has become [newdomain]/about_soo_bahk_do. There are less than 10 specific URLs to handle, which we initially did successfully using Redirect statements in the old domain's htaccess file:
# redirect specific pages to page on new domain
Redirect /about http://www.ywcacam.org/about_soo_bahk_do
We also need a catch-all, so that any other requests go to a specific URL on the new domain, e.g., www.bcsbd.com/somefile becomes www.ywcacam.org/soo_bahk_do. We handled this using Rewrite statements:
# catch-all for any requests not specified above
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(bcsbd.com|www.bcsbd.com) [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.ywcacam.org/soo_bahk_do [L]
Quick research showed the Rewrite directives (using mod_rewrite) would always be processed before the Redirect directives (using mod_alias). So we replaced the Redirects with Rewrites:
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule /about http://www.ywcacam.org/about_soo_bahk_do [L]
RewriteRule /programs http://www.ywcacam.org/programs_soo_bahk_do [L]
...
# catch-all for any requests not specified above
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(bcsbd.com|www.bcsbd.com) [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.ywcacam.org/soo_bahk_do [L]
The problem is that just the catch-all is working - the new Rewrite rules are being ignored. What are we doing wrong in those statements?
Thanks in advance for the help!
I've tried applying a few of the answers found on stackoverflow, but either I'm missing something or I'm plain dumb.
Basically I got a main domain name. This domain already has a non-www redirect. So http://domain.com becomes http://www.domain.com. This domain also has a mobile version found inside the the 'm' folder. So accessing the domain name like http://www.domain.com/m/ works and so does http://m.domain.com. What I'm trying to achieve is simple: anyone whom goes to the site via http://www.domain.com/m/, or http://www.domain.com/m/about should be redirected to the subdomain version so to http://m.domain.com or http://m.domain.com/about in the second case listed above.
Whatever I tried implementing ended up with errors, either I managed to disable direct access to m.domain.com, but it worked via domain.com/m/, or redirect loops.
Thanks!
You can use this code in your DOCUMENT_ROOT/.htaccess file of domain.com main .htaccess:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(?:www\.)?(domain\.com)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^m/(.*)$ http://m.%1/$1 [L,NC,R=302]
# non-www to www
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^(m|www)\. [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [L,NC,R=302]
Using htaccess Rewrite, I want my url http://*.phoneataxi.com/ (where * is a wildcard, excluding 'www') to show in the address bar as is but get information from http://*.phoneataxi.com/test.php?c=*.
I have tried so many different things but nothing is doing exactly what I need. Most examples are redirecting the subdomain to the '/test.php' file in the address bar which I don't want to do.
I'm trying not to have to create individial subdomains and subdomain folders within my webroot.
Ideas?
I use this htaccess file to make Apache act as a proxy for another host:
IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^ghost\.pileborg\.se$
RewriteRule (.*) http://vps.pileborg.se/ghost/$1 [P]
</IfModule>
It causes all access to http://ghost.pileborg.se/ to be "redirected" to http://vps.pileborg.se/ghost/.
UPDATE (2020)
Some of the answers regarding this topic is very old and no longer work as expected.
After searching for hours on something that actually works, this is what I came up with; edit as you see fit:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ([a-z0-9]+)\.
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ - [E=BASE:%1]
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/%{ENV:BASE}/index.php -f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ %{ENV:BASE}/index.php [L,NC,QSA]
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/%{ENV:BASE}/index.html -f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ %{ENV:BASE}/index.html [L,NC,QSA]
Breakdown
Make sure that the rewrite module is installed and enabled on your host
first we turn the rewrite engine on and set the path-base
then isolate the subdomain - any letters/numbers before the first dot
set a variable in this runtime environment that contains the subdomain
check if the subdomain folder and index-file exists
if it does exist -then use that file as the request-handler (no redirect)
if it does not exist then the request carries on normally
Flags
The flags used here are explained here, but the ones used above are quite simple:
[L] Last rule, ignore the rest
[NC] No Case, no uppercase/lowercase restrictions
[QSA] I remember this as "Query String Attach" :D
I've removed and/or combined a couple of pages on a site, And now I need to set up a 301 redirect.
I thougt doing so in my .htaccess was my best bet, but the rules I trying to add doesen't get noticed or something. They don't respond at all...
These are the rules I've tried so far:
Redirect 301 /?Page=sPage&sPage=Our-Store %{SERVER_NAME}?Page=sPage&sPage=About-Us
RewriteRule ^/?Page=sPage&sPage=Our-Store$ %{SERVER_NAME}?Page=sPage&sPage=About-Us[R=301,NC,L]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^%{SERVER_NAME}$ [NC]
RewriteRule . %{SERVER_NAME}%{REQUEST_URI}?Page=sPage&sPage=About-Us [R=301,L]
This last one messed up the CSS and JS src's...
I have this at the top:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
Any suggestion?
UPDATE : follow up question
I have like 3000+ equal url strings with an ending ID that is different. How do I redirect all those requests?
This is the old url : ?Page=Tuninglist&Car=*
And this is the new one : ?Page=Tuning&view=vehicle&type=Car&id=*
* The value of id= is just integers...
Was hoping something like this could work, but no - got a 500 server error instead...
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^Page=Tuninglist&Car=([0-9]+)$
RewriteRule ^ ?Page=Tuning&view=vehicle&type=Car&id=$1 [R=301,L]
*EDIT: The 500 server error occurred because I had a ? at the beginning of the condition.
The redirect now works, but the ending id value doesn't get included.
All I get is the correct page, but not the associated content based on that id...
You can't match against the query string in a redirect or rewrite rule, you need to do it using the %{QUERY_STRING} variable in a condition:
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^Page=sPage&sPage=Our-Store$
RewriteRule ^ %{REQUEST_URI}?Page=sPage&sPage=About-Us [R=301,L]