Redirecting "Bad Word" URLs

Using mod_rewrite to handle various content issues

Redirecting "Bad Word" URLs

Postby jazzylee » Fri Jun 27, 2008 6:03 am

This is for a section of a site that features on topic videos from Youtube. Unfortunately,the script will also display off topic vids and even adult content through the tags or searches. So there is a break of the adsense TOS.

I could remove the tags and search, but the pages could still be accessed from search indexes etc.

So I'm wondering if there is a way to redirect URLs that contain words from a list?

lets say mysite.com/video-area/tag/bad-word displays thumbnails and links to video pages like mysite.com/video-area/tag/bad-word/i_qfdTP-_co/_bad-word__Party
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Postby richardk » Sat Jun 28, 2008 4:09 pm

Try
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Options +FollowSymLinks

RewriteEngine On

RewriteRule ^video-area/tags/(bad|word|list)(/.*)?$ /somewhere [R=301,L]
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Postby jazzylee » Sun Jun 29, 2008 5:53 am

Thanks for the help. That works for exact match of specific words inserted in the url. I'm hoping to rewrite urls that contain those words.

Like using a list (fraz|razmit|frickin)

would rewrite urls like

video-area/tags/frickin-fraz
video-area/tags/red-fraz
video-area/tags/intense_razmit
video-area/tags/sillyfraz
video-area/tags/frazfrazfraz
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Postby richardk » Mon Jun 30, 2008 12:11 pm

Then you need
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^video-area/tags/[^/]*(bad|word|list)[^/]*(/.*)?$
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Postby jazzylee » Mon Jun 30, 2008 6:41 pm

cool, thanks so much! It's a bit heavy handed way to handle the problem, also killing words with badwords embedded in them, but it works fine for this situation. (don't need any documentaries about Sussex) Hopefully Google will agree...
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Postby jazzylee » Mon Jun 30, 2008 6:53 pm

Now how can This be changed to cover case variations? BaD wOrD
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Postby richardk » Tue Jul 01, 2008 3:37 pm

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[NC,R=301,L]
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Postby jazzylee » Thu Jul 03, 2008 10:50 am

Great! This and other measures really cleans up a lot of the unintended adult content.
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