Need help how to Regex url like /c/…

Hi @saimmughal,

Thank you for using our plugin. I’m not sure what patterns these URLs follow. In case they are always your domain name followed by a single letter fragment, this would be the correct regex: [a-z]/ Like this:

If this is not the correct RegEx—or you need it to be more specific—please let me know.

Best regards,
Alex

Thank you so much for writing the detailed instructions on this!

Yes, It’s mostly starting with a single letter then “/” as I shared in the example above.

https://example.com/c/random-page
https://example.com/n/random-page
https://example.com/t/random-page

I also noticed some of these spam pages are making irrelevant 301 redirects like:

https://example.com/t/random-page
it will be redirected to some live post on my website which starts with /t
https://example.com/the-live-page-on-website
Is it safe to run the Regex?rule that you mentioned above seeing this criterion?

These are the pages that I want gone:

You can see there are some links with /account.php?randomtext

Can I use 410 magic for them too? I will setup the rule on the website after your response!

Thanks once again!

Saim

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Just an update I tried the [a-z]/ rule but it made all the post status 401 GONE due to irrelevant 301 redirects?as I mentioned above.

Hi @saimmughal,
The redirects are most likely made by WordPress core through the redirect_canonical function. While this can theoretically be prevented through a filter by the same name, it’s most likely not something you want to do. If you have a list with URLs, you can share them with me via email [email protected] and I can check if I can detect a pattern.

Just an update I tried the [a-z]/ rule but it made all the post status 401 GONE due to irrelevant 301 redirects as I mentioned above.

This doesn’t make sense because either it’s a redirect or the URL resolves to something useful, but then our plugin shouldn’t intervene.

You can see there are some links with /account.php?randomtext

Can I use 410 magic for them too? I will setup the rule on the website after your response!

Unfortunately, no. A request like this never hits the WordPress’ templating system, and therefore we won’t do anything with it.

If you only have those 6 URLs, it might be easier to add them individually instead of using a RegEx.

Please let me know if this helps.

Kind regards,
Alex