Rewrite wrong request

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Hi everybody,

In my web site I have several index pages in different languages in the following format

http://www.mysite.com/lang_index.html

Two days ago I noticed increased, many times. Google bot activity on my site and when I checked my log file I found that all pages crawled were wrong web addresses: to the above index were added existing files from my site like

/folder1/folder2/file.html

So, the strings looked like

http://www.mysite.com/lang_index.html/folder1/folder2/file.html

And surprisingly all they returned code "200".

My question is: is there any way to rewrite such requests to the first ".html" found in the string.

Your help is greatly appreciated.

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Something like:

RewriteRule (.*\.html).*\.html$ $1 [R=301,L]
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You should find out why a bad URI is returning a 200 status code.

Perhaps you have some rewrite rules already that are effecting this?

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works great!
thank you very much.

---------- Post updated at 02:16 PM ---------- Previous update was at 02:13 PM ----------

you are right, but I could not find what causes this. Anyway, will leave it with the working solution from Scott.
thank you for your point.

---------- Post updated 11-14-13 at 10:24 AM ---------- Previous update was 11-13-13 at 02:16 PM ----------

Scott, please tell me how this line will look like no matter what characters are after the first ".html"

thank you one more time