a module based solution is possible too, but I'd point out a couple of
caveats:
- a module to handle this will require a Drupal bootstrap to take
place. Depending on your site load and resources, this may or may not
be negligible, and might not be desirable if it can be avoided. This
might be a non-issue for small or even medium traffic sites...
- drupal_goto will return a 302 http response code by default. Be sure
to specify '301' as the 4th arg to drupal_goto to tell it that this
resource has moved permanently, not temporarily.
Seth
Jamie Holly wrote:
If there is no real way to figure out the new page from the old string
then you could redirect it to a generic 404 page, or an internal
Drupal page (or anything really):
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
Rewritecond %{QUERY_STRING} ^q=cgi-bin(.*)$
RewriteRule .* {put your new URL here - keep the space between the *
and URL}? [R=301,L]
That would redirect any query that has q=cgi-bin at the beginning to
the new page (static 404, the front page, etc.).
If there is a way to figure up your own content then a simple module
would come into play here. Check for $_GET['q'] equaling the cgi-bin
line and for $_GET['file']. Do it on something like hook_init and then
have some code figure the post from the $_GET['file'] and do a
drupal_goto based on the result. If nothing is found then just do a 404.
Jamie Holly
http://www.intoxination.net http://www.hollyit.net
Jennifer Hodgdon wrote:
Nancy Wichmann wrote:
> I put this in there already RewriteRule
^cgi-bin/printOriginal.pl/$ http://www.youthsportsparents.com [R=301,L]
> And I am still seeing these come through to the Drupal log.
You said the URLs that were problems looked like this:
http://www.example.com/index.php?q=cgi-bin/printOriginal.pl&file=/alpha/beta/gamma/rage_prevention.shtml
The regular expression above ends in $, which is the regexp special
character meaning "end of the string/line". So it would only match a
URL that ended with "printOriginal.pl/". You need something after
that to match the rest of the URL... Something like:
^cgi-bin/printOriginal.pl/.*
Might work a bit better... (Caveat: I'm not an expert on Apache
.htaccess redirects either.)
-- Jennifer
