How can I make my redirected page get spidered?

[budbiss]

I am using X-Cart, which has its starting page in a sub-directory called 'customers'...I made it so that the index.html file in the base directory gets redirected to the html file in the 'customers' directory, yet when ever I do a sim spider test on the base domain, it doesn't see any links at all. FYI, I do see links if I directly type in the page that index.html is redirecting to.

Any ideas on why this is happening and how I might be able to fix it?

[fashezee]

How are you re-directing your page?

If server-side: meta refresh,301, etc...there is no chance of any spider indexing your page.

I would look into javascript.

[budbiss]

OK, I fixed that, but discovered another related problem...I fixed it by using this php code:

<?
header("Location: customer/home.php");
?>

The problem I found is that after it gets spidered, a bunch of items return an error...mainly this one: "Non accessible Javascript popup used". I don't understand why since everything on the site does work from an actual user standpoint.