URL path to forum has two slashes

And Googlebot is crawling them

[AndyA]

I have no idea how this happened, but the path to a typical page on my forum is:

http:/ /mydomain.com/forum/index.php?

And Googlebot is crawling URLs that look like this:

http:/ /mydomain.com/forum//index.php?

And my server is giving a 200 OK code for both URLs. I think this might be causing duplicate penalties but I have no idea why my server isn't returning an error. Do I fix this with htaccess?

Edit to add: I did find a slash at the end of the Board URL setup in the admin panel, and removed it. This may remove the double slash from this point forward, but now I need to stop Googlebot from doing it.

[edited by: AndyA at 3:16 am (utc) on Sep. 26, 2006]

[mariolosek]

Actually there is no duplicate content inside the same domain name. In this situation Google will index only one url.

You can check your code or do 301 redirection from:

http:/ /mydomain.com/forum//index.php? to

http:/ /mydomain.com/forum/index.php?

in .htaccess

[AndyA]

Wouldn't that code only work for the /index.php page? I've got thousands of pages in my forum, many of which Google is crawling.

I found this code in another thread here at WebmasterWorld:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^(.*)//+(.*)
RewriteRule .* /%1/$2 [R=301,L]

It's supposed to remove the double slashes from deeper folders, but doesn't seem to work on my site.