Redirect 301 with multiple pages

Can a range be used

[JimmieT]

Hi all,
I have this redirect 301 rule:

Redirect 301 /directory/ipb.htm [mysite.com...]

I have been trying to use multiple ".htm" pages to work with this command with no success.

Is there a way to write in the place of "ipb.htm" a range that will include "a" through "z"? Sort of like: ip(a-z).htm (That does not work of course)

Thanks in advance.

Jim

[Caterham]

See the RedirectMatch [httpd.apache.org] directive.

[JimmieT]

@Caterham,
Thanks for the quick reply, but I am still too green behind the ears to grasp information in the link you provided.
Jim

[g1smd]

I'd recommend looking at

RewriteRule

as that is much more powerful.

Read the documentation several times, and check previous threads in this forum.

[Caterham]

You need to find a regular expression matching your needs. If you're looking for ipa, ipb, ipc etc. it may look like

RedirectMatch 301 ^/directory/ip[a-z]\.htm$ http://example.com/

[JimmieT]

Thanks to all that have responded.

I actually figured it out according to the RedirectMatch 301 as per Caterham's last post. Wrote the code and found out it was not what I wanted to do at all. Live and learn.

The problem arose because scrapers must know of a program that stores email addresses in "ipb.htm", which is also a page in a genealogy program I use that does not contain addresses. My site is constantly being scanned for just that page. And, although, the scrapers get nothing, it just annoyed me. (Guess they got something.)

Since, I've taken other steps to annoy the scrapers, just a little more work for me, but well worth it.

Thanks again for the advice, I've certainly learned more.

Jim

[jdMorgan]

If ipb.htm is an 'included' file, not required or intended to be directly-accessible by your Web users, then you could always return a 403-Forbidden response for *any* HTTP request for that file. This would not affect internal operations such as a script reading that file, because a filesystem read is not an HTTP request.

Jim

[JimmieT]

@jdMorgan

My site is quite basic, static, no scripts, etc. All pages are HTTP requests. Strictly an informational type site, with internal links to its pages, some external links to other sites.

If I could keep that particular page from being indexed, that may be another solution.

Right now I've chanded the file name and links to it, along with the subdirectory name. So, the scrapers get a 404 or a 403 if their ip range has been blocked. Works for me so far.

Thanks for the thought/advise.

Jim