404 Error Page not always working
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I'm not quite sure if this is the right area to post this question, but here we go.
Before I came back to PHPFusion I gave Wordpress a try, now Google has a bunch of dead links stuck in it's search engine, such as:
http://www.wafflechunks.com/?p=659
The issue I'm having is that the link above will automatically redirect to my PHPFusion homepage instead of giving my 404 error page. I read on Google's Webmaster Tools help page, that if Google or other search engines doesn't get a 404 error, it will never remove the link from it's engine. Now this URL for instance will properly go to my 404 error page:
http://www.wafflechunks.com/blah.php
I'm guessing I need to do something in .htaccess, but I have no clue how to do anything in there.
Before I came back to PHPFusion I gave Wordpress a try, now Google has a bunch of dead links stuck in it's search engine, such as:
http://www.wafflechunks.com/?p=659
The issue I'm having is that the link above will automatically redirect to my PHPFusion homepage instead of giving my 404 error page. I read on Google's Webmaster Tools help page, that if Google or other search engines doesn't get a 404 error, it will never remove the link from it's engine. Now this URL for instance will properly go to my 404 error page:
http://www.wafflechunks.com/blah.php
I'm guessing I need to do something in .htaccess, but I have no clue how to do anything in there.
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try this
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<ifModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.wafflechunks.com?p=([0-9]+)$
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.wafflechunks.com/$1 [R=301,L]
</ifModule>Edited by Johan Wilson on 05-08-2009 09:25,
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Thanks for the attempt Barspin. The only difference that made was occiationally changing the displayed URL in the address bar to:
http://www.wafflechunks.com/?p=659
It still displayed my default PHPFusion page also, not a 404 Not Found page.
Is it possible to redirect this link to a page that doesn't exit?
http://www.wafflechunks.com/?p=659
It still displayed my default PHPFusion page also, not a 404 Not Found page.
Is it possible to redirect this link to a page that doesn't exit?
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oh i think i made a mistake do you see the $ in the end of line 4 try to remove that
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The rewrite you have there, is it supposed to do a 301(Moved Permanently) to my homepage URL? From what I can tell it's doing the same thing as before still. Is there a way to test to see if it's working right?
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hmm i'm not sure but the 301 should update the google links, i quess you just have to wait and see
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Oh goodie! Gotta love the waiting game, lol. Thanks for your help Barspin. I'll try and update this thread later once I determine if this worked or not.
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Found a Firefox addon that can check for the redirect codes. With or without this .htaccess change, it's giving a 302 (temporary) redirect. Here's what the addon said when I try going to: http://www.wafflechunks.com/?p=659
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http://www.wafflechunks.com/?p=659
GET /?p=659 HTTP/1.1
Host: www.wafflechunks.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.1.2) Gecko/20090729 Firefox/3.5.2 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate
Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
Keep-Alive: 300
Connection: keep-alive
Cookie: __utma=189649197.3916869091042326500.1248669183.1249513684.1249514428.18; __utmz=189649197.1248777300.7.2.utmcsr=kohguild.net|utmccn=(referral)|utmcmd=referral|utmcct=/news.php; fusion_visited=yes; __utmb=189649197.5.10.1249514428; __utmc=189649197
HTTP/1.x 302 Found
Date: Wed, 05 Aug 2009 23:26:10 GMT
Content-Type: text/html
Connection: keep-alive
Server: Apache
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.2.4
Content-Length: 0
Location: infusions/wrapper/wrapper.php?wrapper_id=1
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I think I figured out an alternate way to have Google and other search engines remove my old Wordpress links from it's index. The answer appears to lie within robots.txt. I just tell it to disallow everything Wordpress related, which should tell Googlebot and other bots to remove those items from their index.
robots.txt
robots.txt
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User-agent: *
Disallow: /feed/
Disallow: /xmlrpc
Disallow: /?p=
Disallow: /wp-
Disallow: /tag/
Disallow: /category/
Disallow: /?tag=
Disallow: /?cat=
Disallow: /?paged=Category Forum
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