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POHow do I redirect nonexistent pages to the 404 error page with .htaccess?
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  1. POHow do I redirect nonexistent pages to the 404 error page with .htaccess?
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    copied!<p>Apparently Bingbot is getting caught in an infinite loop on my site. It downloads pages like <a href="http://www.htmlcodetutorial.com/quicklist.html/applets/applets/applets/applets/applets/applets/applets/applets/applets/applets/applets/applets/applets/applets/sounds/forms/linking/frames/document/linking/images/_AREA_onMouseOver.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://www.htmlcodetutorial.com/quicklist.html/applets/applets/applets/applets/applets/applets/applets/applets/applets/applets/applets/applets/applets/applets/sounds/forms/linking/frames/document/linking/images/_AREA_onMouseOver.html</a> . Since I set my server to interpret .html as PHP the page is simply a copy of <a href="http://www.htmlcodetutorial.com/quicklist.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://www.htmlcodetutorial.com/quicklist.html</a> . <strong>How do I stop Bingbot from looking for these bogus copies?</strong></p> <p><strong>Why is Bingbot looking for those pages to begin with?</strong></p> <p>I'd like to do something like the last line of the .htaccess file shown below (like at "<a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2447106/redirect-to-apache-built-in-404-page-with-mod-rewrite">Redirect to Apache built-in 404 page with mod_rewrite?</a>"), but when I try <code>RewriteRule ^.*\.html\/.*$ - [R=404]</code> the entire site shows a 500 error.</p> <p>Even when I use the last line below it redirects to <a href="http://www.htmlcodetutorial.com/home/htmlcode/public_html/help.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://www.htmlcodetutorial.com/home/htmlcode/public_html/help.html</a> which is not what I wanted.</p> <pre><code>AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .html RewriteEngine on Options +FollowSymlinks RewriteRule ^help\/.* help.html [L] RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example.com RewriteRule (.*) http://www.htmlcodetutorial.com/$1 [R=301,L] ErrorDocument 404 /404.html RewriteRule ^.*\.html\/.*$ help.html [R=301] </code></pre> <p>P.S. I know the site is way out of date.</p>
 

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