I have a typo3 installation with multidomain and multilanguage, where not every language is setup to every domain.
Languages are de/fr/en/pt/es/cn/
www.example.de
can be de/en/fr
but not
www.example.de pt/es/cn
now I have messed up sth. and google has indexed loads of wrong urls e.g.
www.example.de/pt/
www.example.de/es/
www.example.de/cn/
they point to languages that are not set for this domain
I am fiddling around in the htaccess to redirect 301 the wrong urls with wildcards(?) to the .tld
I am looking for a solution redirect eg.
www.example.de/pt/* to www.example.de/
www.example.de/es/* to www.example.de/
www.example.de/cn/* to www.example.de/
where the * should represent the complete sting/path following the language parameter.
and of cause the same procedure for the .com domain
www.example.com/fr/* to www.example.com/
www.example.com/de/* to www.example.com/
I searched the web up and down but nothing I tried works.
any help would highly apreciated.
a tiny step further
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.example.de
RewriteRule ^cn/(.*)$ http://www.example.de/ [L,R=301]
RewriteRule ^pt/(.*)$ http://www.example.de/ [L,R=301]
RewriteRule ^es/(.*)$ http://www.example.de/ [L,R=301]
this seems to work
and now for the second domain as I need to differentiate between .com and .de
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.example.com
RewriteRule ^de/(.*)$ http://www.example.com/ [L,R=301]
RewriteRule ^fr/(.*)$ http://www.example.com/ [L,R=301]
this now breaks www.example.de/fr/whatever
and redirects it to www.example.com
as well.
so it looks like the first condition is matching and the the last rule is applied for french.
how can I limit the rules assigning them only to the appropriate domain conditions?
ok looks like every condition and respective rule needs to be written in a single line an repeated
this seems to work.
any better solution is highly appreciated