Blocking /?author=

With Redirection plugin, I’ve sent requests of /?author={any number} to a 404
regex is ^/(.*)author=(.*)

This should include nothing past the = character, but for some reason it does not.

How does one block /?author=

example of the output that is returned with that request
https://demo.tagdiv.com/newspaper_reel_news_pro/?author=

Thank-you.

• This topic was modified 1 year by marcusdoc.

I may be wrong, but seem to recall having to use .+ vs .* for some stuff

rechecking the site (next day) and apparently the regex captures /?=author as well as /?author{anything}

thanks anyways … hopefully the regex can help others

(perhaps the cache was not updated immediately)

• This reply was modified 1 year by marcusdoc.