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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$" publicationsThis 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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Re: Apache: redirecting deep links
Can you post a sample link the crawlers use?
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Re: Apache: redirecting deep links
The standard txp .htaccess file contains these rules:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
RewriteRule ^(.+) - [PT,L]which mean that if a file/dir exists, it will be served directly, stopping (via [L] flag) processing other rules. Might it be interfering with your block?
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