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Reputation: 24731

301 redirect based on user-agent

I have a domain that I want to do a wildcard 301 redirect with. All incoming traffic should do a 301 redirect if the user-agent is not a popular search engine like Google, Yahoo, Bing. If it is Google, Yahoo or Bing user agents, it can return a 404.

How do I do this?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1923

Answers (2)

User
User

Reputation: 24731

RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} googlebot|yahoobot|microsoftbot [NC]
RewriteRule ^.*$ - [R=404,L]

#else
Redirect 301 / http://www.somesite.com/

Upvotes: 2

Amit Verma
Amit Verma

Reputation: 41219

You can do it like

RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} google|bing|yahoo [NC]
RewriteRule ^.*$ - [R=404,L]

This will redirect any request to 404 for these user_agents.

Upvotes: -1

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