Adsense issue with incorrect redriect?

[Black Tiger]

I'm having a policy warning from Google Adsense because a page is violating their policy.

The report refers to this page:

 www.satellitefun.org/forum/index.php?action=login

however, that is from my old SMF forum which does not exist anymore since I converted to Invision.

So when visiting this page, it's automatically redirected to the same url, but the Invision forum is giving it's "page not found" notice:

Errorcode: 1S160/2

I asked adsense for a review and they still say it's violating rules. I do not have -any- adds on error pages. So I don't know what they aer referring to or how to fix this.

I have an .htaccess in place which looks like this, can't imagine this is causing it though.

	<IfModule mod_expires.c>
  ExpiresActive On
	  # Images
  ExpiresByType image/jpeg "access plus 1 day"
  ExpiresByType image/gif "access plus 1 year"
  ExpiresByType image/png "access plus 1 year"
  ExpiresByType image/webp "access plus 1 year"
  ExpiresByType image/svg+xml "access plus 1 year"
  ExpiresByType image/x-icon "access plus 1 year"
	  # Video
  ExpiresByType video/mp4 "access plus 1 year"
  ExpiresByType video/mpeg "access plus 1 year"
	  # CSS, JavaScript
  ExpiresByType text/css "access plus 1 month"
  ExpiresByType text/javascript "access plus 1 month"
  ExpiresByType application/javascript "access plus 1 month"
	  # Others
  ExpiresByType application/pdf "access plus 1 month"
  ExpiresByType application/x-shockwave-flash "access plus 1 month"
</IfModule>
	<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
Options -MultiViews
RewriteEngine On
	RewriteBase /
	RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule \.(js|css|jpeg|jpg|gif|png|ico|map)(\?|$) /404error.php [L,NC]
	RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
	RewriteRule ^forum/index\.php$ /? [L,R=301]
	</IfModule>
	Header set Strict-Transport-Security "max-age=31536000; includeSubDomains; preload"

I thik I might have added that last

RewriteRule ^forum/index\.php$ /? [L,R=301]

myself to prevent this happening, not sure, but it doesn't matter if I take it away or leave it like that.

So how can I fix it so this url is not found anymore and/or adsense won't complaint about it anymore?

Or don't use the forums 404 but the one I have from the hosting? As long as it's a solution.

I'm definately -not- looking for a paid mod for solving this.

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Edited May 19, 2020 by Black Tiger

[bfarber]

That looks to be a link to a login page - I would recommend just adding an .htaccess rule to redirect that URL to the current login page URL (which is https://www.satellitefun.org/login/). Just google "htaccess redirect URL" and follow one of the billion tutorials out there to set this up.

[Black Tiger]

(f it were that easy I would have done that already but I can't find one that works.

So I tried that, but can't find a working one. I thought the one I had should do the trick:

RewriteRule ^forum/index\.php$ /? [L,R=301]

Also tried to do this on the beginning:

Redirect ^forum/index.php?action=login https://www.satellitefun.org/login/

which is also not working.

But it's not working, probably it has something to do with the ?action=login.php behind the orignal line,

And only the login page needs to be redirected, the other old forum pages need to be redirected correctly.

[Black Tiger]

I found a way. You can't use url redirects because it needs a query redirect. So that search did not fit.

So I started to search for query redirects. Had to search for that too because I'm not native English.

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}  ^/index\.php$
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^action=login$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://www.satellitefun.org/404.shtml? [R=301,L]

At first the ?action=login stayed behind it, but after I put the ? at the url, it's fixed.

 

Edited May 20, 2020 by Black Tiger

[Black Tiger]

For references.

I redirected this to the current login page, the correct one, which has no ads at all.... still Google is complaining about the no content violation.

Very odd.