| Rewritecond to write 200+ links to homepage
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glimbeek
msg:4234890 | 1:44 pm on Nov 25, 2010 (gmt 0) |
Hi,
I'm trying to create a rewritecond that rewrites 200+ links to the homepage aka:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^link-1.html [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^aalink-2.html [OR]
...
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^liasdnk-239.html
RewriteRule ^ [mydomain.com...] [R=301,L]
I just can't get it work...
I'm not sure I should be using %{REQUEST_URI} in the first place
And I'm stuck on how the RewriteRule them all in one go.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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wilderness
msg:4234985 | 5:59 pm on Nov 25, 2010 (gmt 0) |
are the 200+ files all in the same directory?
do all the file names end with numbers?
Are same numbers limited to three characters?
FWIW, rewriting this many pages to a solitary page could be considered spamming by the SE's.
A better practice would be to provide a 410 and a link to the main page.
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g1smd
msg:4235044 | 9:21 pm on Nov 25, 2010 (gmt 0) |
The code you have presented here does no rewriting at all.
It's a 301 redirect.
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glimbeek
msg:4236143 | 7:13 am on Nov 29, 2010 (gmt 0) |
Thanks for the reply's,
All the url's are differently AKA not in the same directory.
And they need to bed a 301 redirect g1smd, sorry for using the wrong terminology.
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jdMorgan
msg:4237685 | 2:23 am on Dec 2, 2010 (gmt 0) |
Do you have any other working rules? Have you tried a simple single-URL redirect rule?
Either you're missing the required "set-up" directives to enable mod_rewrite and turn on the rewriting engine, or your URL patterns are incorrect. Be aware that in a .htaccess context, the pattern in the RewriteRule does not start with a slash, but the pattern in a RewriteCond examining REQUEST_URI must.
So... one or more of the changes here might help:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/link-1\.html$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/aalink-2\.html$ [OR]
...
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/liasdnk-239\.html$
RewriteRule ^ http://www.example.com/ [R=301,L]
Note also that literal periods in patterns must be escaped as shown.
Consider also such performance optimizations as:
RewriteCond $1 ^link-1$ [OR]
RewriteCond $1 ^aalink-2l$ [OR]
...
RewriteCond $1 ^liasdnk-239$
RewriteRule ^([^.]+)\.html$ http://www.example.com/ [R=301,L]
In this second example, none of the RewriteConds are processed unless the requested URL-path ends with ".html", and none of those RewriteConds needs to re-check for the .html extension if they do get executed. Since most requests to a typical site will be for images, this can make a big difference in performance.
However, note that I also agree that redirecting this many URLs to your index page is going to look spammy to the search engines at worst, and be taken as a sign of very poor site design and maintentance at best -- As Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the hyperlink, put it: "Cool URIs don't change [w3.org]." I would suggest picking only the top handful of URLs and redirecting only those, while generating a 410-Gone response for the rest. You get to decide what is meant by "the top URLs," though.
Jim
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glimbeek
msg:4239227 | 10:52 am on Dec 6, 2010 (gmt 0) |
Hi Jim,
Thanks for clearing that out. I managed to get it to work with the first example you gave me.
Thanks again.
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