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 Topic: How to disable excessively long URLs in Apache |
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cisgjm
Joined: 27 Sep 2012
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Location: UK
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 Posted: Thu 27 Sep '12 19:05 Post subject: How to disable excessively long URLs in Apache |
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I have a problem with a spider that is scanning my site for malformed (and very long) URLs. An example is this:
178.154.243.101 - - [27/Sep/2012:17:52:56 +0100] "GET /index.html/bulletin_board/quotes/last-words/a-phrase-a-week/meanings/meanings/american-phrases-and-sayings.html HTTP/1.1" 404 3753
What I would like to be able to do is configure Apache so that anything after .../path/index.html is ignored. Any suggestions? |
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VoodooMill
Joined: 11 Jan 2007
Posts: 60
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| Posted: Thu 27 Sep '12 19:17 Post subject: Re: How to disable excessively long URLs in Apache |
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| cisgjm wrote: | I have a problem with a spider that is scanning my site for malformed (and very long) URLs. An example is this:
178.154.243.101 - - [27/Sep/2012:17:52:56 +0100] "GET /index.html/bulletin_board/quotes/last-words/a-phrase-a-week/meanings/meanings/american-phrases-and-sayings.html HTTP/1.1" 404 3753
What I would like to be able to do is configure Apache so that anything after .../path/index.html is ignored. Any suggestions? |
Hi there,
Take a look at mod_rewrite http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_rewrite.html. |
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glsmith
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Joined: 16 Oct 2007
Posts: 2268
Location: Sun Diego, USA
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| Posted: Thu 27 Sep '12 22:12 Post subject: Re: How to disable excessively long URLs in Apache |
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| cisgjm wrote: | | "GET /index.html/bulletin_board/quotes/last-words/a-phrase-a-week/meanings/meanings/american-phrases-and-sayings.html |
This is not a malformed url. See: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/core.html#acceptpathinfo
I should add that many CMS, Blog and BB software use this along with mod_rewrite to make search engine friendly urls.
Turning on AcceptPathInfo, should make index.html come up instead of the 404 in theory, without the need for mod_rewrite. index.html is not a script normally so all the stuff later would just be ignored. |
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