Htaccess issue
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I have some urls in my site due to a rating counter. These are like:
domain.com/?score=4&rew=25
domain.com/?score=1&rew=28
domain.com/?score=5&rew=95These are all duplicate content to my homepage and I want to 301 redirect them there. I tried so far:
RedirectMatch 301 /[a-z]score[a-z] http://domain.com
RedirectMatch 301 /.score. http://domain.com
RedirectMatch 301 /^score$.* http://domain.com
RedirectMatch 301 /.^score$.* http://domain.com
RedirectMatch 301 /[a-z]score[a-z] http://domain.com
RedirectMatch 301 score http://domain.com
RedirectMatch 301 /[.]score[.] http://domain.com
RedirectMatch 301 /[.]score[.] http://domain.com
RedirectMatch 301 /[a-z,0-9]score[a-z,0-9] http://domain.com
RedirectMatch 301 /[a-z,0-9,=,&]score[a-z,0-9,=,&] http://domain.com
RedirectMatch 301 /[a-z,0-9,=&?/.]score[a-z,0-9,=&] http://domain.comNone of them works. Anybody? Solution? Would be very much appriciated
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This is the document I was searching for. I always got lost as other resources did not explain all character means but I think I will at last be able to understand this one. Thanks again
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Thanks again for your help, really, much appreciated. Have a nice day.
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Can I suggest that you read through the docs? They're pretty good and have some nice intros:
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/rewrite/
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/rewrite/intro.html
% needed since it is a variable
^(.*)$ is 'match the url'
? at the end deletes the query string that came in.
Note, the ^(.*)$ is calculated first, then the condition.
So the whole thing says:
^(.*)$ .... for any urls,
RewriteCond.... where there is a query string with score, rel etc.http://domain.com? .... replace the whole thing with http://domain.com/
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Can I ask you two more things?
First, could you please explain the regex to me as I don't understand a few parts, so:
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^score=[0-9]&rew=[0-9]$
RewriteCond this is the condition hen rewrite should take place
% I don't know why it is necessarry just see it everywhere
{QUERY_STRING} gets the query string
^ matches from beginning
score=[0-9]* score=takes a number from 0-9 zero to more times
&rew=[0-9]*$ again with rew=RewriteRule rule fot the rewrite
^(.*)$ I totally don't get this one
http://domain.com? I don't know why ? is needed
[R=301,L] 301 redirectSecondly I would like to ask you for a code to remove .html endings from any urls.I think it should begin like
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (.*).html
But I am totally not enough for the second part. Could you please help me with this one as well?
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Happy to help Zsolt, I know how frustrating it can be to get some rules working.
Here's a great place to test regex: http://gskinner.com/RegExr/
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Splendid You are the MAN. Thanks
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Try playing with something like this:
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^score=[0-9]&rew=[0-9]$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://domain.com? [R=301,L]The score part of the URL are being treated as parameters.
An alternative would be (in GWT and BWC) to tell Google/Bing to ignore the score and rew parameters
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