How can numeric URLs refer to 404? (Multilanguage site on wordpress under the plugin Polylang) examples: http://foo.com/123432 && http://foo.com/bar/123432 After entering characters, it only adds a slash / 12312 / and remains on current page, but not 404? Tried and RewriteRule did not help

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Try this

RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^(.*/)?\d+/?$ RewriteRule ^ - [R=404,L]

I don’t remember from which version of Apache the redirect works beyond 300x codes, on version 2.4 it works.

Regular to filter url

 ^(.*/)?\d+/?$

^ - the beginning of the line
(.*/)? - optional group, captures all the characters from the beginning of the line to the slash in front of the numbers along with the slash,
\d+ - from 1 to infinity numbers,
/? - optional slash at the end of the line,
$ - end of line.

Will respond to http://foo.com/123432 and to http://foo.com/123432/ , to http://foo.com/bar/123432 and to http://foo.com/bar/123432/ .

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