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#1 Yesterday 23:04:09

skewray
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From: Sunny Southern California
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Apache: redirecting deep links

I have a list of publications, some of which have links to locally stored PDF files. Crawlers deep link to those files and serve them directly, which I would like to gently redirect. The publications URL sets a cookie (“bot”) to a number. So, my .htaccess file looks like

RewriteCond %{HTTP_COOKIE}              !"bot=\d*"
RewriteRule "\.pdf$"                    publications

This doesn’t work. It’s supposed to serve up the publications Txp section static page. Even when the cookie is set, the PDF is returned. It returns the PDF even if I take out the cookie RewriteCond. What am I doing dumb?

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#2 Today 03:36:36

colak
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Re: Apache: redirecting deep links

Can you post a sample link the crawlers use?


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