.htaccess - Rewrite IP to URL

Server Config
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I just recently found an issue where Google has indexed 4-5 pages of a domain by the servers IP address.

How do I enable mod_rewrite to be able to solve this issue from happening in the future?

Current .htaccess

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} /index.php
RewriteRule ^([a-z]+/)?index\\.php$ http://www.example.com/$1 [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^(example-directory-1/)?index\\.php$ http://www.example.com/$1 [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^(example-directory-2/)?index\\.php$ http://www.example.com/$1 [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example.com [NC]
RewriteRule .? http://www.example.com%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L]
2

Easy fix… change this one line from:


RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example.com [NC]

to:


RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\\.example\\.com [NC]
3

Out of curiosity, what does that do?

That specific line is to redirect non-www to www. How does that fix redirecting the IP address (if a crawler gets there for some reason) to the www version of example domain?

4

The way you had it, it was only redirecting no-subdomain (example.com) to [noparse]www.example.com[/noparse].

What I changed it to redirects anything except [noparse]www.example.com[/noparse] to [noparse]www.example.com[/noparse] (which includes straight ip-address hits).

5

Sorry for the delayed response!

Thank you for clarifying this issue. Now would this also redirect parked domains that are creating duplicate content? For example, I have example.com as my main domain as well as example.net and example.org.

Reason I ask, is because I parked those domains, they redirected the homepage, but subdirectories would go to the non .com domain without redirecting or being rewritten.

6

Yeah. It’ll redirect everything as it should to avoid content dilution in googles eyes. Add a [L,R=301] to the end of the rule to issue a 301 permanent redirect.

7

Sorry, you had that correct in your original… was posting from my phone again lol.

8

Ok, so now this is my exact code for redirection…

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\\.equotemd\\.com [NC]
RewriteRule .? http://www.equotemd.com%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L]

I tested it last night, it works for the IP address redirection. My next test will be checking out the parked domains. I will have to change the name servers to point to my server, park them and then await propagation.

Help was appreciated!

9

I just accidentally posted a response in the wrong thread regarding this issue…

With these new changes to my .htaccess file, I cannot keep a subdomain from redirecting back to my root domain. How do I fix this issue?

10

Just add a RewriteCond


RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^somesubdomain\\.equotemd\\.com [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\\.equotemd\\.com [NC]
RewriteRule .? http://www.equotemd.com%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L]

You need one RewriteCond for every subdomain you want to exclude, or put them together in one rule like so


RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^(www|somesubdomain)\\.equotemd\\.com [NC]
RewriteRule .? http://www.equotemd.com%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L]
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Scallio… You are now officially my .htaccess hero of the day!

Sad part is, I think I actually knew how to make that edit… Lol.

12

:slight_smile: