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Reputation: 2274

Set header for specific folder (.htaccess)

For some reason, Google is indexing some of my pages that are called via AJAX and return JSON data for my website. Those pages aren't meant to be visited so I don't want them to appear on Search.

so, in .htaccess, I'm trying to set a header for a particular folder that holds all the AJAX files. I've tried both

<Files ~ "ajax\.php$">
  Header set X-Robots-Tag "noindex, nofollow"
</Files>

and

<Files ~ "\ajax\.php$">
  Header set X-Robots-Tag "noindex, nofollow"
</Files>

but none of those seem to work.

<Files ~ "\.php$">
  Header set X-Robots-Tag "noindex, nofollow"
</Files>

however works, but then all my php pages get this header, which is not what I'm looking for of course.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2697

Answers (2)

anubhava
anubhava

Reputation: 785471

You may use it like this:

SetEnvIfNoCase Request_URI "ajax\.php$" ROBOTAG
Header set X-Robots-Tag "noindex, nofollow" env=ROBOTAG

Upvotes: 0

Webdeveloper_Jelle
Webdeveloper_Jelle

Reputation: 2856

You should add the <Directory> tag to add it only to files in the ajax directory and then do <FilesMatch> to add it to .PHP files only.

<Directory "/ajax">
   <FilesMatch "\.php$">
        #put your header set stuff here
        Header set X-Robots-Tag "noindex, nofollow"
   </FilesMatch>
</Directory>

Check out this link for some more help.
https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/expr.html#examples

Upvotes: 0

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