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Chillu
Chillu

Reputation: 123

how to remove dot in an url through htaccess

I'm getting 403 Access Forbidden error for certain urls. I found the root cause of the issue. wherever there is a dot(.) in an url, i'm getting the 403 forbidden.

There are thousands of urls have been indexed by google and hence i wanted to resolve via htaccess.

For e.g

I want to remove (dot) for the following url

FROM

http://www.example.com/zero/one/two/three/four/five/six./seven/eight.html

TO

http://www.example.com/zero/one/two/three/four/five/six/seven/eight.html

Upvotes: 1

Views: 381

Answers (1)

Karl Henselin
Karl Henselin

Reputation: 1034

mod rewrite should be able to do that:

Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^([^.]*)\.([^.]*)\.?([^.]*)?\.?([^.]*)?\.?([^.]*)?(\.html|php|asp|otherextenstionsdesiredhere$) $1$2$3$4 [NC]

Should allow for 1 to 3 periods being removed at a time. If you need more just repeat it a bit more. If it is only 1 period at most, get rid of part of it. You can test it at http://regexpal.com/ and read more about rewrite at http://corz.org/serv/tricks/htaccess2.php

Upvotes: 1

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