Posted: 14 July 2008 at 10:09pm | IP Logged

RewriteCond Host: (?:www\.abcl\.com.*)
RewriteCond URL .*\.htm [O]
RewriteRule ([^?]*\.htm)\?(?!source=).* http\://www.abcl.com/error/404_test.asp [U,CL,L]

but this isn't exactly what i want as you can see this is allowing the ?source how do i get the above rule to work for .htm/

regarding bookmarks by this i mean

www.abc.com/directory/index.htm/#top

Posted: 29 July 2008 at 7:09am | IP Logged

Hi Lexey,

Thanks for the reply, ok some months ago we noticed search engine indexing our URL’s with additional queries added to the end.

An example of this would be www.example.com/directory/index.htm?we_sent_you_traffic  

At the time we needed some of these URL’s to be allowed due to advertising on an external site so this rule was implemented as below:

RewriteCond Host: (?:www\.abcl\.com.*)
RewriteCond URL .*\.htm [O]
RewriteRule ([^?]*\.htm)\?(?!source=).* http\://www.abcl.com/error/404_test.asp [U,CL,L]

Which disallowed everything that we thought wasn’t necessary, now we are seeing search engines indexing URL’s which slipped passed the above rule.

As we are no longer needing the above rule to allow ?source=    I’d like to be able to stop all traffic that’s coming in to .htm file that has any character added after the first.htm file extension, I say this because I’ve also seen my server giving access to URL’s that contain two separate .htm in a single URL.

When adding this to the file it didn’t deny access to URLs that had / added to the .htm file.

RewriteCond Host: (?:www\.abcl\.com.*)
RewriteCond URL .*\.htm [O]
RewriteRule [^?]+\.htm/.* $0 [I,F]

If you could explain where I’m going wrong or give me another example that will deny access to any thing requesting additional characters to .htm files I would greatly appreciate it.