Google indexed my site by IP address

how can i remove IP indexed pages from G's index

[devitnow]

Hi Everyone,

I have discovered that my site has been indexed both under domain name and IP address. Exactly how this happened I'm not sure. I 'think' this happened last year during a server move when I decided to run my forum under IP address to prevent messages from being posted both at new and old server during DNS update - big mistake.

Can you use a robots.txt file to remove indexed pages by IP address? If not, will a 301 in my .htaccess file work? I don't know if it's possible to redirect for IP to domain name. If so, a code snippet would greatly be appreciated.

thanks,

Devvy

[jonrichd]

Assuming you are running under Apache, why not use the same .htaccess used to prevent domain.com / www.domain.com issues. This will also catch the case where someone lands on your site using the IP address:

RewriteEngine on  
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST}!^www\.example\.com 
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.example.com/$1 [R=permanent,L] 

[devitnow]

thanks!

And I think I'm learning how these rewrite conditions work.

I had a few lines already to deal with the www / none www issue but mine only looked for the domain, I didn't know you could do wild cards like yours.

I edited your snippet to this so that both IP and non www would get handled and it's working.

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST}!^.*\.mydomain\.com
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ [mydomain.com...] [R=301,L]

thanks again,
devvy

[devitnow]

- sorry, double clicked again and posted twice -