[FIXED] How do I 410 a pattern of toxic Prestashop URLS?

Issue

I've been trying to 410 a pattern of a few thousands toxics URLS that got indexed by Google for one of my clients. I want every urls of the website that contain ?% to send a 410 response code so they got de-indexed.

Example of an URL :

https://www.example.com/fr/promotions?%25252525253Bid_lang=6&p=6

I've tried to put this in the .htaccess, above the If module section, as I found on another thread here, but it didn't work, any ideas ?

RewriteRule ^[a-z]shop($|/) - [G]

Solution

I want every urls of the website that contain ?% to send a 410 response code

Using mod_rewrite at the top of the .htaccess file:

# Send 410 for any URL where the query string starts with "%"
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^%
RewriteRule ^ - [G]

Answered By - MrWhite

Answer Checked By - Gilberto Lyons (PHPFixing Admin)

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[FIXED] NGINX return 410 for deleted CSS and JS files

Issue

I have a problem with a plugin I've deleted, apparently the cache on the users browser still send request for some JS and CSS files that are gone, the problem is that this is causing a lot of 404 errors in the logs (in 1 day I generated 4GB of error logs only containing the 404 deleted CSS and JS files).

I was trying to create a setting on NGINX that will send a 410 response to everyone that was trying to access the missing JS and CSS files, the path of the files is the same:

/wp-content/cache/autoptimize/js/autoptimize_single_32ab5663ad75c559c9af68098a1b63e6.js

/wp-content/cache/autoptimize/css/autoptimize_32c1c99d8f7a5a9618074737134c8f9c.css

I tried various location settings I found online for both all files that contains autoptimize_*.css and js and the folder /autoptimize, but it didn't work, it was like this:

location ^~ /autoptimize { return 410; }

What I'm missing?

Solution

Try :

location ^~ /wp-content/cache/autoptimize/ { return 410; }

Answered By - Pedram Gholizadeh

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