PCI Compliance System Duplicating Links to Home Page

Site map generator shows additional pages to my site

[vosstria]

I recently generated a site map of my ecommerce site for a quick listing of all my pages & descriptions. It was here where the site map disclosed a handful of additional pages.

It's just as if the actual pages to my site have been broken up by Control Scan. I can replace "customer" with "index", "contact", etc., all real pages for my site.

When I try viewing these pages, they all take me right to my home page.

Has anyone seen this before - is this normal? I'm new to ecom.

My biggest concern is of duplicate content.

[edited by: lorax at 9:36 pm (utc) on Mar 2, 2010]
[edit reason] removed urls [/edit]

[Philosopher]

without seeing the site, I'm betting you have a pci scanning compliance seal on the pages that are being duplicated. The seal is likely clickable, but has some javascript in it that either puts http: or https: depending on the page so you scanning software is only picking up the remainder of the URL and tacking it on to your URL.

If you visit one of the URLs does it actually come up or do you get a 404? I'm betting it's a 404, in which case it's nothing to worry about.

[vosstria]

When I try to visit any one of these URLs, it takes me just to the home page, but no 404.

[vosstria]

Since it going straight to the home page, do you think it is a 404, and then redirecting back to the home page?

[Philosopher]

Likely. Although it may not be a standard 404. A lot of ecom systems are designed to bounce the user to the homepage if a page isn't found.

That's not the ideal way to do it. You really want to be serving an actual 404 page for non-existent pages.

[vosstria]

Completely makes sense, and agree w/u. Thank you for your help & time.