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Nancy,<br>
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I'm assuming this is a leftover from the moms team site? The incoming
requests are coming from the fact that Google appears to have lots of
these links in its index still to these URLs and sites which still link
to these URLs.<br>
<br>
Instead of a rewrite, I'd suggest a a response code 301 redirect. This
will be more Google friendly.<br>
<br>
look in the default .htaccess file for the (commented out by default)
lines that deal with www. redirection (ie, you always want people to
see "www" or never do, regardless of how they access the site.) Using
those patterns should help show you how to redirect to the same content
but without the "<span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Courier New";">cgi-bin/printOriginal.pl&file=/</span>"<br>
<br>
Seth<br>
<br>
<br>
Nancy Wichmann wrote:
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<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">I am
getting lots of requests like this:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-left: 0in;"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Courier New";"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.example.com/index.php?q=cgi-bin/printOriginal.pl&file=/alpha/beta/gamma/rage_prevention.shtml">http://www.example.com/index.php?q=cgi-bin/printOriginal.pl&file=/alpha/beta/gamma/rage_prevention.shtml</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-left: 0in;"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The
file argument is a valid page on our
old site and is itself redirected with a ReWriteRule in .htaccess.
However,
cgi-bin/printOriginal.pl does not exist and I have no idea what it was
supposed
to do (well, I can guess print the page). We get lots of these requests
for
different pages. I have tried a simple rewrite rule and a URL alias to
prevent
the 404 processing, but neither has fixed it.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-left: 0in;"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Is it
possible to design a rewriterule
that essentially discards the "cgi-bin/printOriginal.pl" and just
serves up the requested page (well, after its own rewrite rule has
worked)? So
this would become<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-left: 0in;"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Courier New";"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.example.com/index.php/alpha/beta/gamma/rage_prevention.shtml">http://www.example.com/index.php/alpha/beta/gamma/rage_prevention.shtml</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; color: fuchsia;">Nancy
E. Wichmann, PMP </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Courier New";">Injustice
anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. -- Dr. Martin L. King, Jr</span><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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