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    • Cocoonfxmedia
      Cocoonfxmedia last edited by

      Hi

      I have 100's of URL's appearing in Search Console for example:

      ?p=1_1

      These go to on to 5_200 etc..

      I have tried to do htaccess and the mod rewrite is on as I can redirect directories to the root i.e

      RewriteRule ^web_example(.*)$ /$1 [R=301,N,L]

      However I have tried all kinds of variations to redirect ?p= and either it doesn't work at all or it crashes the website. Can anyone point me in the right direction to fix this.

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      • Cocoonfxmedia
        Cocoonfxmedia last edited by

        RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^p=([0-9_])$
        RewriteRule ^(.
        )$ /p/%1? [R=301,L]

        the above works on our test area but not on clients so it hosting issue

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        • Cocoonfxmedia
          Cocoonfxmedia @chrissmithps last edited by

          Thanks Chris

          Seems there is an issue with the web host.

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          • chrissmithps
            chrissmithps last edited by

            Hi James,

            Assuming you want to keep the existing setup but set up friendlier URLs (example, redirect ?p=1_14 to /p/1_14), you could do something like this:

            RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^p=([^&]+) [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} &p=([^&]+) [NC]
            RewriteRule .* /p/%1? [R=301,L,NE]

            Then you'd want something to handle those new URL requests with something like this:

            RewriteRule "^p/(.*)$" "/index.php?p=$1" [L,NE]

            Hope this helps!

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            • Cocoonfxmedia
              Cocoonfxmedia @donford last edited by

              It's from an old website so the pages no longer exist. I will have a look at the link you sent over thank you.

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              • donford
                donford last edited by

                Hi,

                Something is generating those links, and that is what I would want to fix. It sounds like a module or add-on is incorrectly coded, or installed improperly. As p=1_1 is usually a form of pagination and / or sort order.

                You could of course easily fix it by putting a canonical tag on the root page to itself or work out a mod rewrite rule, but that isn't actually fixing the problem. As soon as you add another category you may have to revisit the fix again.

                Here is an example of using mod re-write on Stack Overflow: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14666140/htaccess-rewriting-php-pagination

                I hope that helps,

                Don

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