[TYPO3-english] realurl + appendMissingSlash + 404 notFound + 301 Moved permanently + SEO

[Jigal van Hemert]

Hi,

On 18-1-2013 19:52, Krystian Szymukowicz wrote:
> HOW REALURL BEHAVES NOW:
> 1. Enter http://www.example.com/some-non-existing-page
> 2. Headers returned are "301 Moved permanently" and then there is
> redirection to http://www.example.com/some-non-existing-page/
> 3. Realurl figure out that this page do not exist and return 404 header.

That's the correct behaviour. The URL without trailing slash would never 
have been generated by the site. If the configuration in the past had 
been that there was no trailing slash, the 301 is still correct in general.

The fact that the page does not exist (anymore) is a different issue.

Let's see the real life use cases:

1. User enters www.example.com/some-non-existing-page
The browser will receive an 301 and simply updates the address bar with 
the url with trailing slash. After that the 404 page will be displayed. 
This is completely understandable for every user.

2. The URL www.example.com/some-non-existing-page is stored in an 
automated system and requested by that system
The system will receive a 301 to the url with trailing slash and will 
update the stored url. After that it will receive the 404 error and will 
mark the url as invalid.
This is completely understandable for all systems.

You don't have to do the trailing slash addition with RealURL; there are 
also rewriting solutions for your favourite web server. And if you use 
that, the same procedure will be followed; the web server will not check 
if it is a valid URL first before redirecting.

Just my opinion.

-- 
Jigal van Hemert
TYPO3 Core Team member

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