Has my 301 home page really worked?

Nightwing

Greetings from 53° 57′ 30″ N, 1° 4′ 49″ W otherwise known as York

I know a site i'm working on has two versions of the home page e.g.
http://www.davidclick.com & http://www.davidclick.com/index.htm

This morning I delved into the bowels of the ht access file and this is what happened...

Firstly i added redirect 301 /index.htm http://www.davidclick.com nope that broke everything I then amended to redirect 301 /index http://www.davidclick.com

Can anyone re assure me ive done the right thing in terms of resolveing my home page canonical problem?

Thanks in advance

activitysuper

You can quite easily test it just vist the url you would like to redirect so in the case above 'http://www.davidclick.com/index.htm'. Does it redirect to http://www.davidclick.com, nope so at the moment the redirect is not working.

AndreVanKets

Hi,

I can confirm that your 301 redirect is not working..

However, because http://www.davidclick.com/index.htm has a rel="canonical" tag pointing to http://www.davidclick.com/ its not causing any duplication issues.

However, I would recommend you get the index page redirected to the correct home page anyway.

Regards

Greg

kyleNeedham

`Use the below line in your Htaccess file:

Redirect /index.htm` http://www.davidclick.com/

Nightwing

Thanks for replies but...

"Why is my 301 redirect instruction not working?" Right now ive got this in my ht access file:
301 /index http://www.davidclick.com

What should it be?

kyleNeedham

Because /index and /index.htm are two different pages if you look /index is being redirected not /inedx.htm

activitysuper

If you type davidclick.com/index in the address bar it does redirect to davidclick.com.

Like Kyle said just do the same thing as you did for /index but this time have index.htm.

Nightwing

HI Kyle,

I've just added amended ht access file as suggested and i get:

"Firefox has detected that the server is redirecting the request for this address in a way that will never complete."

Just to re-iterate i did add this line:
redirect 301 /index.htm http://www.davidclick.com & the whole site wouldnt display (Ive since removed it)

I'm confused. me thinks I'll contact 123 reg

activitysuper

Hope this helps.

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