Redirecting Contact Us form in .htaccess

[Convergence]

Greetings,

Due to the obscene amount of spam, our client wants to redirect ?main_page=contact_us to their corporate website's contact page.

Anyone have any suggestions how to do so using .htaccess?

Current .htaccess file:

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

# adds www to Browser URL
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [L,R=301]

# From Ultimate SEO URLs
RewriteRule ^(.*)-p-(.*).html$ index\.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=$2&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]
RewriteRule ^(.*)-c-(.*).html$ index\.php?main_page=index&cPath=$2&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]
RewriteRule ^(.*)-m-([0-9]+).html$ index\.php?main_page=index&manufacturers_id=$2&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]
RewriteRule ^(.*)-pi-([0-9]+).html$ index\.php?main_page=popup_image&pID=$2&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]
RewriteRule ^(.*)-pr-([0-9]+).html$ index\.php?main_page=product_reviews&products_id=$2&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]
RewriteRule ^(.*)-pri-([0-9]+).html$ index\.php?main_page=product_reviews_info&products_id=$2&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]
RewriteRule ^(.*)-ezp-([0-9]+).html$ index\.php?main_page=page&id=$2&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]

# For Open Operations Info Manager
RewriteRule ^(.*)-i-([0-9]+).html$ index\.php?main_page=info_manager&pages_id=$2&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]

# For dreamscape's News & Articles Manager
RewriteRule ^news/?$ index\.php?main_page=news&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]
RewriteRule ^news/rss.xml$ index\.php?main_page=news_rss&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]
RewriteRule ^news/archive/?$ index\.php?main_page=news_archive&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]
RewriteRule ^news/([0-9]{4})-([0-9]{2})-([0-9]{2}).html$ index\.php?main_page=news&date=$1-$2-$3&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]
RewriteRule ^news/archive/([0-9]{4})-([0-9]{2}).html$ index\.php?main_page=news_archive&date=$1-$2&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]
RewriteRule ^news/(.*)-a-([0-9]+)-comments.html$ index\.php?main_page=news_comments&article_id=$2&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]
RewriteRule ^news/(.*)-a-([0-9]+).html$ index\.php?main_page=news_article&article_id=$2&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]

# All other pages
# Don't rewrite real files or directories
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f [NC] 
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*).html$ index\.php?main_page=$1&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]

Thanks!

[Vger]

Contact Us is not completely rewritten, but its file type is changed to .html. You can try something like this, but if it doesn't work then use Google to look for alternative answers:

Redirect 301 /contact_us.html http://www.otherdomain.com/other_contact_us_page

It may have been better just to install reCaptcha on the Contact Us page, or else change its content so that it just gives people the bricks-n-mortar address, phone number and the email address (minus the actual contact form).

Vger

[Convergence]

Contact Us is not completely rewritten, but its file type is changed to .html. You can try something like this, but if it doesn't work then use Google to look for alternative answers:

Redirect 301 /contact_us.html http://www.otherdomain.com/other_contact_us_page

It may have been better just to install reCaptcha on the Contact Us page, or else change its content so that it just gives people the bricks-n-mortar address, phone number and the email address (minus the actual contact form).

Vger

Hi Vger,

Thanks for your suggestion.

We have already tried a redirect for '/contact_us.html' - that actually works when someone clicks on the 'Contact Us' link.

However, for some reason, if the spammer puts '?main_page=contact_us' in the URL - the Contact Us page comes up and doesn't redirect. This is what the spammers ARE doing - either automated or otherwise.

We Googled our buts off but kept ending up here :)

Thanks again!

[DrByte]

Rename /includes/modules/pages/contact_us folder to contact_us_DISABLED.
Then when anyone attempts to access the main_page=contact_us, they'll be sent to the 404 page.
And, since you said you've already changed all your contact_us links to point someplace else, this 404 will only affect the rogue visitors.

[Website Rob]

Add the following to your main .htaccess and test.

RewriteRule ^index\.php?main_page=contact_us$ http://other_domain.com/contact.html [NC,R=301,L]

[Convergence]

Rename /includes/modules/pages/contact_us folder to contact_us_DISABLED.
Then when anyone attempts to access the main_page=contact_us, they'll be sent to the 404 page.
And, since you said you've already changed all your contact_us links to point someplace else, this 404 will only affect the rogue visitors.

Yep, that did the trick. Thanks!

Any template override for this so during an update we don't have to remember to rename the folder again for our client?

[Website Rob]

Any changes to Core files must be included within your site Documentation - a file you keep for yourself so you know what's going on.

[Convergence]

Add the following to your main .htaccess and test.

RewriteRule ^index\.php?main_page=contact_us$ http://other_domain.com/contact.html [NC,R=301,L]

Thanks Rob, Unfortunately that did not work.

[Convergence]

Any changes to Core files must be included within your site Documentation - a file you keep for yourself so you know what's going on.

Yes, good habit to do - just trying to simply having to remember to update 'change logs'.

[bigwavemaui]

Hello,

Probably because of fat fingers and old eyes I can't do what the original poster has done--redirect his zencart contact us page a wordpress contact form using .htaccess

Below are my failed attempts:
first from the domain root
1)
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
Redirect 301 /newcart/contact_us.html http://samedomainascart.com/samedoma...ontact-island/
2)
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
Redirect 301 /newcart/index.php?main_page=contact_us http://samedomainascart.com/samedoma...ontact-island/

second from the zencart directory
1)
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
Redirect 301 /contact_us.html http://samedomainascart.com/samedoma...ontact-island/
2)
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
Redirect 301 /index.php?main_page=contact_us http://samedomainascart.com/samedoma...ontact-island/

I know I must be doing something stupid--I follow the rest of the thread especially where Dr. Byte says to then disable the form so the bad guys get 404's but I can't get there. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks