301 Redirect non existant pages

[Cocoonfxmedia]

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.

[Cocoonfxmedia]

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

[Cocoonfxmedia]

Thanks Chris

Seems there is an issue with the web host.

[chrissmithps]

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!

[Cocoonfxmedia]

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.

[donford]

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