I had an SEO requirement to return a 410 HTTP status code for any URL’s with \/advanced-search\/ in them.<\/p>\n
The following snippet can be added to your Apache config to achieve this.<\/p>\n
# Return a 410 for any URL's with advanced-search in\nRewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} \/advanced-search\/\nRewriteRule ^.*$ - [G]<\/pre>\nHere we’re looking in the URI for the words \/advanced-search\/ and if found, the RewriteRule below is activated.<\/p>\n
The RewriteRule takes the URL, keeps it intact and sets the [G] flag. The [G] flag forces the server to return a 410 Gone status as it’s response.<\/p>\n
If Apache sees a [G] flag, it returns immediately and no further rewrite rules are evaluated.<\/p>\n
A 410 HTTP status code indicates that a resource was once available, but isn’t any more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"