Re: [users@httpd] Blocking particular URL/file patterns

2019-07-02 Thread @lbutlr
On 2 Jul 2019, at 14:16, James Moe wrote: > /condalia1398.xml.gz > /heling348628-h1819-746-be2dochmiacal-97a2-/6a465d7hll78i1/ … > Is there a way to write a filter that blocks the above URL patterns > without generating a 404 response? Have you looked into robots.txt? And a sitemap? --

[users@httpd] Blocking particular URL/file patterns

2019-07-02 Thread James Moe
apache 2.4.39 linux 4.12.14-lp151.28.7-default x86_64 Our site has beset with numerous search engine queries for URLs that have *never* existed on the site. They have the form: /condalia1398.xml.gz /heling348628-h1819-746-be2dochmiacal-97a2-/6a465d7hll78i1/ where the digits are randomly