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How do you force the website to show only the proper url instead of an url full of junk?

example (name withheld to protect the stoopiidd….)

whatever.com/index.php/article/42528#.Tsk00HUElxU.gmail

will show the article, when it should be forced to only show:

whatever.com/index.php/article/42528

any ideas?

at the same time the website shows up as http://www.whatever.com  and whatever.com

using htaccess how do we stop that?

thank you

Where are you getting that first link? Is it on your site or in an email?

As for the second, you can do something like the following to route everything to www, make this the first thing in your htaccess.

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.domain\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ <a href="http://www.domain.com/$1">http://www.domain.com/$1</a> [R=301,L]

not generated from our site, but from an external email.

Hi bthom62,

Did caddisint’s .htaccess directive work for you? As to your first question, what do you want to happen when the URL:

whatever.com/index.php/article/42528#.Tsk00HUElxU.gmail

Is visited at your site? Would like it to generate a 404? Obviously, how the URLs are formed in outside sources are out of your control, but we can change the way ExpressionEngine deals with them when it intercepts them. Have you enabled strict URLs on this site? Design-> Templates-> Global Preferences: Enable Strict URLs and note the way it interacts with the “404 Page” setting in the same pane.

Thank you Dan

The HT access worked well

Thank you

I am worried that google might penalize me forhave multiple versions of the story

re:  whatever.com/index.php/article/42528#.Tsk00HUElxU.gmail

I would like that no matter what garbage showed up after:

whatever.com/index.php/article/42528

that it would all devolve to:

whatever.com/index.php/article/42528

Does that make sense

bthom62,

The reason that URL is working is that the “junk” part starts with a hash “#” and this is part of the name attribute for anchor tags. As such this means your browser has found the correct page and would auto scroll to the correct on the page if it only existed.

Sean

thank you

Thing is it doesn’t

I am a little worried when I go to webmaster tools and see reams of pages with weird urls

Hi bthom62,

In theory, you could have mod_rewrite strip out everything starting at the hash, but that would be inadvisable since it would also break legitimate use of the hash as well. Are you analytics tool indicating that you are getting dinged for multiple URLs? Have you looked on google to see where these links might be coming from?

Since this has moved beyond the scope of ExpressionEngine technical support, I’m going to move this into Community Help to keep the discussion going.

Thanks!