301, Bad HTTP response code - help.

roamingk · 11-12-2006, 06:36 AM

I am running a sitemap tool generator on my blog at the moment. All's fine, except my default home page is

http://www.gaysitgesguide.com/serendipty

which obviously points to index.php,

However when the sitemap tool comes accross this link it brings me back an error, specifically a 301 error, "bad http response code".

Does anyone know what this is and how it can be solved?

jdog · 11-19-2006, 04:21 AM

isn't a 301 a redirect?

djberriman · 11-26-2006, 02:01 PM

Hi,

The message is quite correct, the url
http://www.gaysitgesguide.com/serendipty is invalid. The server correctly sends a 301 to your browser which then requests the valid url
http://www.gaysitgesguide.com/serendipty/.

You can see this in your browser as you enter one and then it is displayed as the other.

This causes 2 hits on your web server, one for the original request and a 2nd in response to the server sending the redirect and then the browser requesting the correct page.

The trailing / should always be entered.

gannik · 11-30-2006, 02:17 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by djberriman

Hi,

The message is quite correct, the url
http://www.gaysitgesguide.com/serendipty is invalid. The server correctly sends a 301 to your browser which then requests the valid url
http://www.gaysitgesguide.com/serendipty/.

You can see this in your browser as you enter one and then it is displayed as the other.

This causes 2 hits on your web server, one for the original request and a 2nd in response to the server sending the redirect and then the browser requesting the correct page.

The trailing / should always be entered.

So this 301 redirect happened in this case because of the trailing/? Never known about it, thanks for useful info.