g1smd - 12:18 am on Mar 20, 2005 (gmt 0)

Also part of this redirect issue is to make sure that if you link to an index page inside a folder then do NOT include the filename in the link. End with the folder name and a trailing / at the very end.

If you link to a folder, always include the trailing / at the end. It is important.

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I just sorted out a mess where Xenu generated a massive site map for a site, one that was much larger than expected, contained every page duplicated, and loads with a title of "301 Moved". It turns out that although the site uses domain.com as the base in all the internal links, that the host name is configured as www.domain.com, and that many of the internal links did not include a trailing / on folder names. There was a valid .htaccess file directing calls for www.domain.com over to domain.com and it was correctly set up. So, what happens when you link to domain.com/folder is that there is an automatic internal server redirect to www.domain.com/folder/ (remember the host name is set to www.domain.com here) and then the 301 redirect inside the .htaccess file takes over and sends the visitor over to domain.com/folder/ instead. By including the trailing / this could have been avoided. Changing the server host name over to not include the www is also a good idea, but even if that was done, any request for domain.com/folder would still have to have an internal automatic redirect to domain.com/folder/ anyway. So, always include the / on the end to avoid any redirect happening at all.