ashleykaryl
Member
Posted 2 years ago #
I recently moved my blog to a new server and after it was all done I noticed in Google webmaster tools that when I fetched the homepage http://www.nudephotopro.com/blog as googlebot it was showing as a permanent redirect, though clearly the blog exists. It says it is redirecting to itself.
When I put in the address as http://www.nudephotopro.com/blog/ Google fetches the page properly and shows all the details. I am 99.9% sure that when I created the blog I did so without the trailing / after blog, so my question is whether or not this matters and if so how do I fix it? I note that when I enter the url it always appears in the browser window with / slash at the end.
Thanks
Ashley
PS I know I have to start posting on the blog more often...
ashleykaryl
Member
Posted 2 years ago #
This is what Google is seeing:
HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2010 20:34:07 GMT
Server: Apache/2.2.3 (CentOS)
Location: http://www.nudephotopro.com/blog/
Content-Length: 326
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
<html><head>
<title>301 Moved Permanently</title>
</head><body>
<h1>Moved Permanently</h1>
<p>The document has moved here.</p>
<hr>
<address>Apache/2.2.3 (CentOS) Server at http://www.nudephotopro.com Port 80</address>
</body></html>
WordPress puts the slash on the end. This is correct behavior, you don't want things showing up in two different locations.
In short, yes, it does matter. However, it's doing things the right way. You want one of them to redirect to the other one.
ashleykaryl
Member
Posted 2 years ago #
Thanks Otto, but is there anything I should change in my setup configuration here?
