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Benjamin Pazdernik
Benjamin Pazdernik

Reputation: 85

Redirecting specific URL to 404

I set up a new website with WordPress. But Google still has a sitelink to a no longer existing page with a URL parameter: domain.com/index.php?lang=EN which points to a non-existent page and should therefore throw a 404 error. But somehow WordPress does show a page stating

No blog posts have been added yet.

Due to not responding with a 404 error, the site does not disappear from Google Search Results!

How can I redirect incoming traffic from those two URLs:

to a 404 page? (I have set up a custom 404 page and added the ErrorDocument 404 in my .htaccess-file.)

Upvotes: 4

Views: 2541

Answers (1)

anubhava
anubhava

Reputation: 786001

Add this rule on top of your .htaccess just below RewriteEngine On line:

RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,}\s/+index\.php\?lang=(EN|DE)\s [NC]
RewriteRule ^ - [R=404,L]

Upvotes: 2

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