Hi Nancy.
I haven't tested this, but try:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}
^/index.php?q=cgi-bin/printOriginal\.pl&file=.*$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^/index.php?q=cgi-bin/printOriginal\.pl&file=/(.*)$ /$1
[L,R=301]
And see if that can give you a place to start. The above assumes that
clean URLs will translate it to 'index.php?q=' later. This is so that
the 301 redirect (which google will remember) will be to a Clean URL.
If not desired to function like this, you can change the last "/$1" in
the above example to: "/index.php?q=$1" .
You can throw some "RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST}" lines in there too and
change those also if you want to preserve the SEO value of links to old
domains as well, but that's probably a topic for another list, I'd guess.
Seth
(A google search for "printOriginal.pl" turned up a few momsteam.com links.)
Nancy Wichmann wrote:
Wow, how did you know about MomsTeam (now YouthSportsParents)?
I put this in there already RewriteRule ^cgi-bin/printOriginal.pl/$
http://www.youthsportsparents.com [R=301,L]
And I am still seeing these come through to the Drupal log.
There might be a clue in RewriteRule ^alpha/sports/(.*)
http://www.youthsportsparents.com/sports/$1 [R=301,L] if I really
understood regular [sic] expressions.
Nancy E. Wichmann, PMP
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. -- Dr. Martin L.
King, Jr.
*From:* [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Seth Freach
*Sent:* Tuesday, November 10, 2009 11:26 AM
*To:* [email protected]
*Subject:* Re: [development] Can .htaccess discard part of a path?
Nancy,
I'm assuming this is a leftover from the moms team site? The incoming
requests are coming from the fact that Google appears to have lots of
these links in its index still to these URLs and sites which still
link to these URLs.
Instead of a rewrite, I'd suggest a a response code 301 redirect.
This will be more Google friendly.
look in the default .htaccess file for the (commented out by default)
lines that deal with www. redirection (ie, you always want people to
see "www" or never do, regardless of how they access the site.) Using
those patterns should help show you how to redirect to the same
content but without the "cgi-bin/printOriginal.pl&file=/"
Seth
Nancy Wichmann wrote:
I am getting lots of requests like this:
http://www.example.com/index.php?q=cgi-bin/printOriginal.pl&file=/alpha/beta/gamma/rage_prevention.shtml
<http://www.example.com/index.php?q=cgi-bin/printOriginal.pl&file=/alpha/beta/gamma/rage_prevention.shtml>
The file argument is a valid page on our old site and is itself
redirected with a ReWriteRule in .htaccess. However,
cgi-bin/printOriginal.pl does not exist and I have no idea what it was
supposed to do (well, I can guess print the page). We get lots of
these requests for different pages. I have tried a simple rewrite rule
and a URL alias to prevent the 404 processing, but neither has fixed it.
Is it possible to design a rewriterule that essentially discards the
"cgi-bin/printOriginal.pl" and just serves up the requested page
(well, after its own rewrite rule has worked)? So this would become
http://www.example.com/index.php/alpha/beta/gamma/rage_prevention.shtml
Nancy E. Wichmann, PMP
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. -- Dr. Martin L.
King, Jr.
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