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goodlinks
Joined: 07 Nov 2012
Posts: 2
Location: Barcelona
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 Posted: Wed 07 Nov '12 18:49 Post subject: URLs ending in / show 404 when exploring with google bot in |
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Hi, I have a WP online shop using WP E-commerce plugin 3.8.9 together with the SEO Yoast plugin.
My problem in that when exploring the product URLs ending with / in google webmaster tools, it displays 404. But the same URL without / is found and ok. I must day that both URLs show up correctly in browsers and the non / version is redirected to the one ending in /.
Here is my .htaccess:
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
Perhaps I could solve this problem by setting a redirect to non / URLs instead. What do you think? Thanks in advance. |
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cbj4074
Joined: 02 Nov 2012
Posts: 24
Location: United States
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| Posted: Wed 07 Nov '12 20:56 Post subject: |
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I know only enough about WordPress not to use it, and I know nothing about those two plug-ins, but this is a classic problem with any Web-server.
Technically speaking, /test and /test/ are completely different and unrelated URLs, so, unless you redirect one version to the other, the behavior that you're observing is expected.
| Quote: | | I must day that both URLs show up correctly in browsers and the non / version is redirected to the one ending in /. |
This surprises me, given that browsing the URLs with Google Webmaster Tools yields 404 responses. I would expect either method of accessing the URLs to return the same HTTP response code.
The .htaccess file that you posted does nothing to or with the trailing-slashes. But, yes, if the plug-in(s) you're using don't provide a mechanism for dealing with this common conundrum, then it is possible to remove the trailing-slash using mod_rewrite via .htaccess. |
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goodlinks
Joined: 07 Nov 2012
Posts: 2
Location: Barcelona
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| Posted: Thu 08 Nov '12 3:14 Post subject: |
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| cbj4074 wrote: | | I know only enough about WordPress not to use it |
I'm beginning to realize it too.
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This surprises me, given that browsing the URLs with Google Webmaster Tools yields 404 responses. I would expect either method of accessing the URLs to return the same HTTP response code. |
It's pretty weard. I have doing some testing with urivalet.com and it displays all URLs ok, none of them 404. However with other bots, like web-site-map.com, it shows 404 just like google does.
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The .htaccess file that you posted does nothing to or with the trailing-slashes. But, yes, if the plug-in(s) you're using don't provide a mechanism for dealing with this common conundrum, then it is possible to remove the trailing-slash using mod_rewrite via .htaccess. |
I have no idea how does this plugin work or where is it making the redirect and adding the /. I have already tryied to remove the trailing-slash with mod_rewrite but it's giving all sorts of errors: infinite redirect loops, and other conflicts, probably because of this plugin.
So I found out that this plugin might be the problem. I will just try other plugins untill I learn some code and go back to HTML5 + php. Thanks. |
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James Blond
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Joined: 19 Jan 2006
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Location: Germany, Next to Hamburg
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| Posted: Thu 08 Nov '12 11:17 Post subject: |
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| I use a plugin called "Redirection" with a regular expression to prevent that. |
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