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#1 2007-02-23 16:07:15
- Zodiac
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URL Rewriting to Prevent Duplicate URLs
How do I edit my htaccess file to prevent duplicate URLs without breaking my site?
I have tried a few times to do some simple stuff like:
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^fully.qualified.domain.name [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^$
RewriteRule ^/(.*) http://fully.qualified.domain.name/$1 [L,R]
(I cannot get stupid textile to format this properly at all, sorry)
To no avail :(…
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Last edited by Zodiac (2007-02-23 16:10:30)
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Re: URL Rewriting to Prevent Duplicate URLs
I don’t understand what you want to do.
In most TXP setup, there’s no duplicate URI.
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#3 2007-02-23 18:03:59
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Re: URL Rewriting to Prevent Duplicate URLs
haha… yea I guess that was a pretty bad rendition of the problem at hand… but I was freaking out because I actually hosed my site… but I did get it to work, here’s what I did:
RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d RewriteRule ^(.+) – [PT,L] RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^nicholasbattaglia\.com RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.nicholasbattaglia.com/$1 [R=301,QSA] RewriteRule ^(.*) index.phpI just wanted to force the www to be present in all URLs…
Dag?
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Re: URL Rewriting to Prevent Duplicate URLs
Oh, that’s all?
Myself, I use this, but there are countless other ways to do it :
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.dorem\.info [NC]
RewriteRule ^/?(.*) http://dorem\.info/$1 [R=301,L](well, that’ll do the opposite, but it’s easy to reverse it).
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#5 2007-02-23 18:44:32
- Zodiac
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Re: URL Rewriting to Prevent Duplicate URLs
Well mine works… so I will stay with that for now… but do you know how to eliminate image hotlinking?
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#6 2007-02-23 19:10:19
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Re: URL Rewriting to Prevent Duplicate URLs
And what do like, the [NC] and [R=301,L] mean??
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Re: URL Rewriting to Prevent Duplicate URLs
There is no real way to stop image hotlinking. You could filter by referer, but that doesn’t work so well. But unless you have a huge bill only for this kind of things, you shouldn’t go mad about it, it’s usually not a big deal.
NC means case insensitive
R=301 mean it’s a permanent redirect (with the appropriate http header)
L means it’s the last rule to apply
Last edited by Jeremie (2007-02-23 20:01:30)
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#8 2007-02-23 20:09:26
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Re: URL Rewriting to Prevent Duplicate URLs
Well it looks like mine only worked sporadically until I put the [NC] and [R=301,L] in there… shrugs… I have no idea :-\…
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Re: URL Rewriting to Prevent Duplicate URLs
For hotlinking, I was using this:
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://(.+\.)?blogspot\.com/ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://(.+\.)?myspace\.com/ [NC]
RewriteRule .*\.(jpg|gif|bmp|png)$ hotlink.jpg [L]Blogspot and MySpace were the biggest offenders, sucking up loads of bandwidth. I created a very small jpg and placed it in my web root, it had my site url in it, hey gotta advertise :)
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