Hi,

Im fairly new to global redirect so i am not sure if this is a bug, intentional design or conflict with other module. I have live-hhtp header installed on firefox and have been checking out global redirect. It seems to be working great for nearly everything and is sending 301 responses for redirects as it should for all but the domain-name without a trailing slash.

so.
www.example.com/alias/ redirect to www.example.com/alias
non alias (node/7) paths redirect to aliases paths,
BUT www.example.com does not send a 301 response to change to www.example.com/ even though drupal (or some other module) adds the '/' to the url in my address bar.

i have been reading a lot about search engines and indexing and it appears that having one and not both is better as the SE will not index it as separate content but if there are both .com/ and .com versions it might index it as two separate pages.

I have the paths module installed, but not pathauto as my site is fairly low volume (no user gen content)
My vital statistics Drupal 6.10 Apache/2.2.3 MySQL 5.0.32 PHP 5.2.0-8+etch13

any help or clarification would be appreciated.

thanks

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nicholasthompson’s picture

nicholasthompson
Primary language English
commented
Status: Active » Closed (won't fix)

the URL trailing slash is actually handled by your browser, not GlobalRedirect.

For example, enter this into your address bar...
http://www.google.co.uk

Note the trailing slash appears instantly.

What is your URL? I dont think Google indexes website frontpages without a trailing slash...

thewass’s picture

thewass commented

Thanks for the fast response, So i guess global redirect cant change this, or changing it wont make any difference to search engines then?

My website is: www.surpriseviewcottages.co.uk

thanks for the help