.htaccess duplicate content redirect problem

[matty281k]

Hi,

Any htaccess gurus, help will be appreciated,

Google has indexed no existant pages on my site causing duplicate content issues because the .htaccess is not redirecting /? urls properly.

Google has cached the following Urls in the format shown below, i need to 404 them some how

http://www.somesite.co.uk/?http://www.somesite.co.uk/

Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on



# Externally redirect direct client requests for script filepaths back to "friendly" extensionless URLs
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]+\ /([^/]*/)*[^.]+\.php([?#][^\ ]*)?\ HTTP/
RewriteRule ^(([^/]*/)*[^.]+)\.php$ /$1/ [R=301,L]

# Externally redirect to add missing trailing slashes to extensionless URL requests
RewriteCond $1 !\.[a-z]+[0-9]?$
RewriteRule ^(.*[^/])$ http://www.somesite.co.uk/$1/ [R=301,L]

# Externally redirect all non-canonical hostname requests to canonical hostname
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.somesite\.co\.uk$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.somesite.co.uk/$1 [R=301,L]

# Internally rewrite all requests ending with slash to php scripts
RewriteRule ^(.*)/$ /$1.php [L]

 

[peter_w]

I'm no technical htaccess guru so will leave that for someone else, but you should consider adding /?* to your robots.txt file to let Google know it shouldn't be indexing any URLs with question marks - unless for whatever reason you do need some ? URLs indexed, in which case put something like /?http*