Google is indexing my domain with // ... What to do?

[Reilly]

hello,

since yesterday someone who do not know HTML-Basics has set a Link on my Site - and linked with http://www.example.com/folder// - now Googlebot follows this link - and my Linkstructur is relativ - i have only relative links - and Googlebot is indexing now all with // - i do not use Rewrite Rules and i never have Configurate since 5 years my Server - please what can i do - to prevent Googlebot indexing all my Sites with // ... i wanna send a 404 - but how without Rewrite Rules...

thanks
Reilly

[edited by: Robert_Charlton at 6:18 am (utc) on July 28, 2008]
[edit reason] Use example.com - it can never be owned. [/edit]

[tedster]

There's a thread in the Apache forum that addresses this - Page Indexed with double // - how to prevent [webmasterworld.com]

[Reilly]

thanks tedster,

but i need a solution without rewrite conditions :( and it must return a 404 Error...

[edited by: Reilly at 10:54 am (utc) on July 28, 2008]

[tedster]

I thought that was the issue - but unfortunately this IS a server configuration issue and I don't know of any other way to create a fix.

[g1smd]

You could prepend a short PHP (or other language) script to the start of all your pages; one that tests the requested URL and responds accordingly.

However, I would much prefer to use .htaccess for doing this.

At the end of the day, you've discovered yet another reason to avoid using relative URLs; that is the wider issue here.

[Reilly]

thanks so much tedster and also you g1smd,

i got running mod_rewrite and i fixed the problem - it was hard but i got the clue yesterday evening - thanks so much...

[g1smd]

You might also want to add redirects for trailing dot and/or trailing quote marks on URLs too.