Help with a rewrite rule

registered · Posted: Sat Aug 07, 2004 2:57 pm

Greets:

Maybe someone can help me with a rewrite rule. I have both Yahoo and Google looking for links like this one:

Only registered users can see links on this board! Get registered or login!

Up to the php, it's PHPNuke, the Season3 is from the old pre-PHPNuke site, and everything after that is PHPNuke.

Needless to say, it's wrong. But PHPNuke is feeding the search engines (and you if you view the link) a really, really screwed up verson of my home page. It's also making all the links start with that URL above and making things worse.

Can anyone think of a good rewrite rule that would force the browser/ search engine to Only registered users can see links on this board! Get registered or login! ?

thanks,
-drmike

Site Admin/Owner Joined: Aug 27, 2002 Posts: 17088

Can you break this down for an old fart? I am not getting your drift here.

registered · Posted: Sat Aug 07, 2004 7:15 pm

Could try something like:

Code:




Redirect /season3/ http://www.tdjc.net/index.php

Put that in a .htaccess in the route.

Posted: Sun Aug 08, 2004 11:43 am

GanjaUK wrote:

Could try something like:

Code:




Redirect /season3/ http://www.tdjc.net/index.php

Put that in a .htaccess in the route.

nearly 1,200 subdirectories (Each article was a subdirectory basicly) each one having at least 7 ways of getting there.

That would be at least 8,400 rewrites, all of them manually rewritten as there really wasn't a set pattern.

Smile

Easier to get Yahoo and Google to fix their issues and just spider the site new. They also have pic links that are 4 years out of date.

Raven, try this as I just posted in on a different site:

Quote:

The old structure was something like:

http://www.tdjc.net/pages.php/l/307/

The new structure is:

http://www.tdjc.net/modules.php?name=News&...order=0&thold=0

with graphic links at:

http://www.tdjc.net/modules/Web_Links/images/newgreen.gif

What the webengines is doing is combining the old style URLs with the new ones. jmcgon made the comment and from the quick glance at the logs I took yesterday before my time run up here, most of the incorrect links at something along the lines of:

http://tdjc.net/index.php/abunchofgarbagehere

with the search engines thinking index.php is a directory, not an actual page.

Now, I tried doing a redirect of

redirect /index.php/* http://www.tdjc.net/index.php

and

redirect /index.php/* http://www.tdjc.net/

neither worked and it caused the real index.php not to load for visitors.

Individual page redirects aren't going to happen as each of the 1,200 pages was reached by a minimal of 7 (and up to 12) links which would mean a total of at least 8,400 redirects all of them handwritten as each one is different.

I did get it to finally take a redirect of

http://tdjc.net/index.php/index.php becomes http://www.tdjc.net/index.php

thinking that maybe that's the point of entry

....and got a total of 949 redirects within a 10 hour period. (Like I said, this is really screwed up.)

I've gone to check the logs to the last few days. Maybe there's been an improvement.

Lots of fun.

-drmike

thanks,
-drmike