301 Redirect on uncharacterized articles

15 years 5 months ago #4242 by treoguy
I've noticed that my uncharacterized articles are showing a 301 redirect in the server headers. Is there a reason behind this? Some article sites have rejected links to those pages since they are "redirected".

Is this an SEF Advance feature or something on my server?

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15 years 5 months ago - 15 years 5 months ago #4243 by Saka
Probably something specific for your site.

Here is a uncategorized article URL: joomla15.sakic.net/example-pages-and-menu-links/
Check its headers with some tool like www.seoconsultants.com/tools/headers.asp

#1 Server Response: joomla15.sakic.net/example-pages-and-menu-links/
HTTP Status Code: HTTP/1.1 200 OK

What's the URL you are checking? Note that if you click on a link without trailing slash (like joomla15.sakic.net/example-pages-and-menu-links ) it will first redirect to a link with trailing slash and then return 200 and that's a SEF Advance feature.

Emir Sakic
www.sakic.net

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15 years 5 months ago #4244 by treoguy
If I use the trailing /, I don't get the 301. The page is www.everythingpre.com/pre-accessories

Is this a default feature or something that is configurable on the sef advance control panel?

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15 years 5 months ago #4245 by Saka
It's a default feature to imitate behaviour of a web server directory and create appearance of physical directories. For example, if you click on www.joomla.org/images which is a physical directory, Apache will redirect you to www.joomla.org/images/ with 301.
SEF Advance works the same way.

Emir Sakic
www.sakic.net

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