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Description of my issue:
Hi my old site was hacked and therefore i have 5000+ bad links pointing to my site.
I need to send all links which are not exactly my new 6 pages to a 404 page. Otherwise Google will not rank me back.

The question: How exactly can i forward all incorrect, bad, incomplete links to 404 instead of 200 which is somehow the standard php or joomla setting.
I would really like to avoid adding an incomplete list of many thousends of links one by one into a htaccess file.

THANK YOU!

Hi Nicholas,

thank you for your answer.
I can narrow it down to 6 cases:
Disallow: /*?
Disallow: /?*
Disallow: /*?*
Disallow: /*%
Disallow: /%*
Disallow: /*%*

Basically everything that is not a direct and exact page url. (I have only 10 pages)
Can you tell me how that would look like in the Redirect or in the htaccess component?

Hi,

i have found the following infos:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14492735/how-can-i-redirect-old-pages-with-question-marks-in-the-url

It says that i can forward but with a rewrite rule. Now i have tried but it goes to server missconf. 500 Error.

I guess while it is already pretty complex in the htaccess. All admintool functions already on!
I hope you will find a solution. I am getting crazy on this.

I am no developper, but what about this?
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/rewrite/flags.html#flag_g

NE|noescape

By default, special characters, such as & and ?, for example, will be converted to their hexcode equivalent. Using the [NE] flag prevents that from happening.

RewriteRule ^/anchor/(.+) /bigpage.html#$1 [NE,R]

The above example will redirect /anchor/xyz to /bigpage.html#xyz. Omitting the [NE] will result in the # being converted to its hexcode equivalent, %23, which will then result in a 404 Not Found error condition.


Redirecting Anchors

Description:

By default, redirecting to an HTML anchor doesn't work, because mod_rewrite escapes the # character, turning it into %23. This, in turn, breaks the redirection.
Solution:

Use the [NE] flag on the RewriteRule. NE stands for No Escape.

On which one?

Hi,

the solution is a rewrite querry carching all the strings right at the top of the htaccess file.