/SHARETHELOVE

  • Resolved Rik0399

    (@rik0399)


    4 years, 5 months ago

    Hi John,

    For some reason, I’m seeing hundreds of these appearing on URL’s :

    /SHARE%20THE%20LOVE

    As an example:

    /lights/SHARE%20THE%20LOVE

    No matter what I try, I cannot seem to get it to work on a redirect i.e. :

    from /lights/SHARE%20THE%20LOVE to /lights/

    Any ideas, please?

    Many Thanks

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  • Plugin Author John Godley

    (@johnny5)

    4 years, 5 months ago

    As I’ve mentioned several times I really really don’t think it’s worth redirecting these things – you are just creating work for yourself that serves no benefit to your site (it also, it seems, creates work for me as a result).

    As with all of these question, can you provide full details – what redirect have you created for it?

    Thread Starter Rik0399

    (@rik0399)

    4 years, 5 months ago

    Hi,

    Not my intent in frustrating your efforts but here’s the problem I am facing …

    Whilst you see this redirect – /lights/(.*) to /lights/$1 as being unnecessary, the reason is that, unless I create such redirects, they all result in 404?

    Similarly, endless URLs such as /lights/SHARE%20THE%20LOVE which I try to redirect to /lights/.

    And, I have ten’s of hacker attempts trying to navigate to WP files, which I subsequently redirect to google.com.

    So far, 13K directs which in part, I suspect someone/something is deliberately creating these annoyances.

    In terms of my “creating work for yourself”, that as the author, I would be happy to make a donation for an hour of your attention in helping me resolve these issues as I suspect I am not the only one experiencing such issues.

    Regards

    Plugin Author John Godley

    (@johnny5)

    4 years, 5 months ago

    they all result in 404

    As I’ve mentioned before, a 404 is the correct response for something that doesn’t exist. It doesn’t harm your site if they come from bots or other random probes.

    I have ten’s of hacker attempts trying to navigate to WP files, which I subsequently redirect to google.com

    As above, it’s not necessary to do this. Bots probe every site, not just yours. The only thing you need do is make sure you keep things up to date.

    I suspect I am not the only one experiencing such issues.

    You are not, and as I explained on the plugin support site, and here also, it is not necessary to do anything for these kinds of requests. I get tens of thousands of these requests a day to my own sites and do nothing with them. Big sites do not endlessly create redirects.

    As I mention in my FAQ:

    The 404 log is not a todo list and you shouldn’t think you need to ‘fix’ it. A 404 is a valid response for a page that doesn’t exist and has never existed.

    You do not get penalised for these. Google does not see them. No one is personally trying to hack your site – they are just scripts that run against millions of sites. No matter how many redirects you put in place there will always be more requests for different variations. Each regular expression has a performance overhead, and you will gradually slow your site down for no appreciable benefit.

    I’m happy to provide support here, but each request takes time away from improving the plugin.

    • This reply was modified 4 years, 5 months ago by John Godley.
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