Regular Expressions

  • Resolved Rik0399

    (@rik0399)


    4 years, 10 months ago

    Hi John,

    I have a small issue if you can help, please

    Seeing plugin message :

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    Regular Expressions > Problem > Too many regular expressions may impact site performance
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    I get tons of these > /listing/freightland/ so addded /listing/freightland/(.*) to go to > /category/travel/transport/

    Also, I have someone screwing with my site deliberately creating tons of 404 using variations upon listing i.e. wp-content/ and as you may expect, takes hours to fix them but I think I’m still not getting how to use the expressions in order to redirect them correctly?

    I would appreciate it 🙂

    Many Thanks

    Rik

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  • Plugin Author John Godley

    (@johnny5)

    4 years, 10 months ago

    It is not necessary to ‘fix’ all 404s. You should fix ones that are the result of a problem on your site, and the rest you can ignore. You shouldn’t be spending hours doing this.

    Thread Starter Rik0399

    (@rik0399)

    4 years, 10 months ago

    Hi John,

    Here’s the issue I’m having :

    I get tons of 404’s, which you would agree, is bad for SEO.

    As an example, both bing and google are reporting the following as 404

    /stationery-tips-tricks/SHARE%20THE%20LOVE

    So to fix this I tried this :

    /stationery-tips-tricks.* to redirect to /stationery-tips-tricks/

    I also tried this :

    /stationery-tips-tricks/.* to redirect to /stationery-tips-tricks/

    Can you suggest which is the best way, please?

    Many Thanks

    Thread Starter Rik0399

    (@rik0399)

    4 years, 10 months ago

    Hi,

    Adding to the above issue,

    No matter what I try and do, even using :

    ^/stationery-tips-tricks/.* to redirect to /stationery-tips-tricks/

    When I test in the browser, “too many redirects”

    But in incognito, it works?

    Thread Starter Rik0399

    (@rik0399)

    4 years, 9 months ago

    Hi John,

    I have a ton of 404 every day, many from hackers trying o use wp root files, I have tried all sorts of permutations to stop them.

    As an example, I have this :

    /category/fashion/jewellery/SHARE%20THE%20LOVE

    So I tried :

    ^/category/fashion/jewellery/.*
    ^/category/fashion/jewellery/*.*
    /category/fashion/jewellery/.*
    /category/fashion/jewellery/*.*

    With and without REGEX and whilst it may work in the incognito browser, it does not in normal browser.

    Turn off Cloudflare and cache plugin but I’m still getting 404.

    Any ideas, please?

    Many Thanks

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