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Maryana Anelova
Maryana Anelova

Reputation: 35

Cut "?_escaped_fragment_=" and redirect to html/php

I see some links in Google Search Console and they look like this:

example.com/somedir/3.html?_escaped_fragment_=

How to cut this part: ?_escaped_fragment_= and redirect to the current html/php file?

It should be like this:

I found a possible way, but I can't redo it for myself... This "RewriteRule" redirecting to main page. But I don't need this feature...

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^_escaped_fragment_=(.*)$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.%{HTTP_HOST}%1? [L,R=301]

Please help.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 127

Answers (1)

DocRoot
DocRoot

Reputation: 1201

Note that the _escaped_fragment_ URL parameter was part of Google's AJAX crawling specification (deprecated since Oct 2015) using #! style URLs - so make sure your site is not making use of this still.

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^_escaped_fragment_=(.*)$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.%{HTTP_HOST}%1? [L,R=301]

This is the right idea, in that you need to examine the value of the QUERY_STRING server variable, however, the target URL is possibly incorrect. (It might have been correct if you were still using this specification.)

Try something like the following instead:

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^_escaped_fragment_=
RewriteRule (.*) /$1 [QSD,R=302,L]

The above should redirect a URL of the form example.com/somedir/3.html?_escaped_fragment_=<anything> to example.com/somedir/3.html.

The QSD flag (Apache 2.4+) is necessary to remove the query string from the target URL.

Note that this is a 302 (temporary) redirect. Only change to a 301 (permanent) redirect once you have confirmed it is working OK - in order to avoid caching issues. 301 redirects are cached persistently by the browser (including any erroneous redirects).

User enters this link: example.com/somedir/3.html?_escaped_fragment_=

Users wouldn't normally enter links like this. They shouldn't even be linked to or picked up by search engines unless there was perhaps a site-misconfiguration at some point? So, depending on how/where these URLs are being linked from (check the report in GSC) then you could even consider blocking these URLs instead? For example:

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^_escaped_fragment_=
RewriteRule ^ - [F]

The above would return a 403 Forbidden instead.

Upvotes: 1

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