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Greg Bernhardt
Greg Bernhardt

Reputation: 81

redirecting page to 404

I've found a few pages for redirecting a single page to 404 but it's not working. Here is my simple line

RedirectMatch 404 ^/showthread.php?p=3164554$

It does not work though. Am I missing something? Thanks!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 49

Answers (2)

David Duponchel
David Duponchel

Reputation: 4069

Your configuration tries to redirect the page "404" to the page "^/showthread.php?p=3164554$" (see the documentation).

RedirectMatch generates a redirection : you can't redirect with a HTTP 404 code. When redirecting, you may have issues with the query string (I couldn't match the query string), I would use rewrite rules :

You can redirect to a 404.html page with

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING}  p=3164554
# the empty question mark discard the query string
RewriteRule  ^/showthread\.php    404.html?    [L,R=301]

Or you can stay on the same url but show the 404 page :

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING}  p=3164554
RewriteRule  ^/showthread\.php      -          [L,R=404]

Upvotes: 1

A l w a y s S u n n y
A l w a y s S u n n y

Reputation: 38502

Try this way to escape your . character with \ like this.Let me know, it works for you or not.

RedirectMatch 404 ^/showthread\.php?p=3164554$

Upvotes: 0

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