Unnecessary IIS redirects

[DrByte]

There was a bug a long time back that would trigger some redirects and/or PHP errors when spiders or any other visitor that couldn't establish a session would visit the site. But that was fixed in or before v1.3.9a, so I don't expect it to be related here.

It seems this is a server configuration problem.

[zcadqliv]

Is wild card the correct choice? I remember seeing a fix a while ago for when your Admin locks out but I would need to find it again. Thanks.

[DrByte]

If you've created your own redirects via .htaccess (or your IIS equivalent), and if you've got multiple rules that are conflicting with each other, then yes you might have a problem.

You probably don't need a 301 for changing to/from "www" in your URL if the canonical rules are working properly (which they should be if you're using v1.3.9h and haven't added any URL-rewrite addons). Esp if you've told the search engines already that you're making the change or told them to treat both as the same ... which most do anyway.

[zcadqliv]

The link to "http://www.glimm_erdog.com/index.php?main_page=advanced_search_result" has resulted in HTTP redirection to "http://www.glimm_erdog.com/index.php?main_page=advanced_search".

The link to "http://www.glimm_erdog.com/index.php?main_page=redirect&action=banner&goto=5" has resulted in HTTP redirection to "http://www.glimm_erdog.com/index.php?main_page=cookie_usage".

Since I couldn't resolve this, I wanted to get specific info. Most of the errors resemble or are duplicates of above. I think if I resolve any it will resolve all or most. I must be missing something.

All "sessions" are standard default. There is an SSL.

Thanks.

[DrByte]

The link to "http://www.glimm_erdog.com/index.php?main_page=advanced_search_result" has resulted in HTTP redirection to "http://www.glimm_erdog.com/index.php?main_page=advanced_search".

That's normal when the visitor enters no search criteria, or if there are no results found.

The link to "http://www.glimm_erdog.com/index.php?main_page=redirect&action=banner&goto=5" has resulted in HTTP redirection to "http://www.glimm_erdog.com/index.php?main_page=cookie_usage".

Banners usually do a redirect, especially if the banner links to an external page.
And in the case of linking to an internal page such as your banner#5 does, flagging up the cookie_usage page isn't surprising if the visitor is a search-engine spider or some other system that's not capable of cookies etc.

So, neither of those is worrisome IMO.

[zcadqliv]

Thanks DrByte -

I also got this:
http://www.glimm_erdog.com/" can also be accessed by using URL "http://www.glimm_erdog.com/index.php?main_page=index

Everything functions well, my real concern I guess is google counting as separate pages and diluting the relevancy.

Off topic, my only other issue is allegedly missing an H1 tag on the shopping cart page. Does this even make sense?

Thanks for all the help.

[DrByte]

Thanks DrByte -

I also got this:
http://www.glimm_erdog.com/" can also be accessed by using URL "http://www.glimm_erdog.com/index.php?main_page=index

yes, that's normal. nothing wrong with that.

Everything functions well, my real concern I guess is google counting as separate pages and diluting the relevancy.

If you're using v1.3.9 and haven't tampered with the core code that renders canonical URLs, then google won't be treating any of it as diluted.