301 redirect problem

montana · 21 Nov 2007 at 16:00

Hi im having a bit of toruble with a 301 redirect, its putting a / after each url which is ok in most cases but some urls dont work if they have a / at the end.

Redirect 301 /site5 http://site5.com/processing/clickthrgh.asp?btag=a_818b_103

Anyone help me out?

Thanks

shine · 21 Nov 2007 at 17:12

I'm assuming you are using Apache - if so mod_dir should fix this for you.

montana · 21 Nov 2007 at 18:08

how does that work then?

monkeysmith · 21 Nov 2007 at 18:16

You could use PHP...

PHP:

<?
Header( "HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently" );
Header( "Location: http://www.mydomain.com" );
?>

montana · 21 Nov 2007 at 23:48

im using .htaccess for my 301 redirects, i cant seem to get ti to work still anyone be willing to talk me through it?

Thanks

Andy

shine · 24 Nov 2007 at 00:29

You need to implement the DirectoryIndex Directive settings in your htaccess file from the link I posted earlier. Assuming you have a mixture of html and php files then this should work:

Code:

 DirectoryIndex index.html index.php

SiriusB · 24 Nov 2007 at 00:31

He has solved his problem. It was down to him not specifying a specific file.

He was redirecting /page instead of /page.html. Because he missed the extension Apache assumed he was redirecting from a folder and therefore adding a trailing slash to the new url.