How to 404 all urls from sub directory?

[philgames]

Hello,

I have wordpress on my site and some moron (before I owned the doamin) hacked the previous owners and put the rubbish usual hacked links on the domain and spammed them... the domains really great if it wasnt for that. anyway I have wordpress installed on the site and these hacked pages used to be on urls in /?/ like so.. I cannot ignore this problem because on these urls wordpress is stupidly showing homepage content and not a 404 because of this ? my question is how do I block 404 or hopefully totally gone error these pages

here is what I mean

http://www.example.com/?/2013/12/post1891/payday-loans-quid

I tried just uplaoding a wordpress site to /? but godaddy installatron didnt let me... can some one help!

Oh yes

something to not is that I cannot access my godaddy ftp properly... godaddy just shows me ftpquota and that is it. If i try and upload a htaccess on the root I just break the entire site totally with 500 internal errors and I have been messing around for hours just trying to get my wordpress site back up... in the end I had to reset the whole hosting account because deleting everything didnt help. So this means that I can only upload to the /?/ folder...... thanks godaddy.

Any help would be really appreciated.

thank you guys.

ps, I created a empty foler called ? in root and added .htacces file containg

http://www.example.com/?/2013/12/post1891/payday-loans-quid ErrorDocument 404 but wordpress still showing homepage content there.

[philgames]

I have now got access to the htaccess through ftp.. SO i want /?/ and all the urls in /?/ go to 404?

[lucy24]

on these urls wordpress is stupidly showing homepage content

This "stupidity" is an inherent property of every CMS. Somewhere in your primary htaccess is a RewriteRule that says-- in English-- "if the request is for any file that doesn't physically exist, serve the front page instead". That's simply how wordpress-- and Joomla, and Drupal, et cetera-- works.

To bypass this behavior, you need to put a redirect in the same htaccess, before this global rewrite.

http://www.example.com/?/2013/12/post1891/payday-loans-quid ErrorDocument 404

This form is entirely wrong; I'm surprised it doesn't just create a 503 error on all requests.

You need to find out whether that /?/ is interpreted as part of the path, or whether everything after the ? is read as a query string. If it's considered part of the path, the pattern involves
/\?/
If it's considered query string, the pattern involves
%{QUERY_STRING} ^/

Can we assume that the sequence /?/ never occurs in any real URL on your site?

[philgames]

thank you for your reply really appreciate it.


if I go to

http://www.example.com/pizza/2013/12/post1891/payday-loans-quid

instead of using ? I get a 404 error... so its the ? that is doing something.

If I get rid of /?/ and use

http://www.example.com/2013/12/post1891/payday-loans-quid

it goes to a 404..

Is there some way to redirect/rewrite the htaccess and get rid of the /?/ somehow... currently in my htaccess is just the standard htaccess for wordpress which is:


# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress


Sorry if I am a bit slow am im not great at programming.