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Noindex Session ID pages with htaccess

I have many pages with the parameter SID= indexed in Google which I would like to noindex, eg https://www.example.com.au/checkout/cart/?SID=c79e6055436bf371a02f4d2601cecd03

I have used the following code in htaccess but it doesn't seem to match?

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^SID=$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ - [env=NOINDEXFOLLOW:true]
Header set X-Robots-Tag "noindex, follow" env=NOINDEXFOLLOW
Solution

  • In your RewriteCond directive, you are trying to match against:

    ^SID=$

    which means, that the %{QUERY_STRING} will start with SID= and has nothing else after that. This is not the case here. Update the code to:

    RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^SID=
RewriteRule ^ - [env=NOINDEXFOLLOW:true]

Header set X-Robots-Tag "noindex, follow" env=NOINDEXFOLLOW