A technical 301 Redirect Question

[EssEEmily]

Alright, I'm taking a chance and stepping into the developer role here...something completely out of my comfort zone so bear with me.

We have a pretty site built in PHP (www.dassant.com) and we are coming across some duplicate content issues. For example, these are supposed to be the same page:

http://www.dassant.com/products.php

and

http://www.dassant.com/products

So the SEO in me states the obvious: We need a 301 redirect stat! Unfortunately, our developer went MIA and I am having the hardest time getting a 301 implemented.

After some research I found the code that I need to paste into the PHP (for this specific page):

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

However, when I paste it in, upload and refresh the page, I get these error messages in the (multiple) browsers I use. (See attached)

http://imgur.com/a/1lar5

With my limited knowledge I can't find these supposed other redirects so I'm stumped. Can anyone shed some light?

Thank you in advance!

1lar5

[tmtoseo]

Looks like both URLs are being rendered from the same View (products.php). Depending on how your site was implemented you're going to have to address it at the controller and/or rewrites level.

What the error says is that the page is redirecting to itself ad-infinitum.