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Http://www.xxxx.com does not re-direct to http://xxx.com

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Earthsaver last edited by

When typing in my website URL www.earthsaverequipment.com successfully re-directs to earthsaverequipment.com as specified in robot.

However if you type http://www.earthsaverequipment.com it brings up a 404 error

Is this a potential issue? if so is there a way to fix it? thanks
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DeptAgency @Earthsaver last edited by

I'm pretty sure it doesnt redirect twice. I double checked it with httpFox. It simply redirects only once.

If you want to see for yourself:

(https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/httpfox/)

Good luck with your website!
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Earthsaver @soltec last edited by

That error is only occurring in Chrome so there must be some caching issue or such? Firefox and internet explorer are redirecting fine.

I am still unclear as to why http://www.earthsaverequipment.com re-directs 2 times before reaching earthsaverequipment.com
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soltec last edited by

Hi Alexander,

If you are the only one getting this issue another possibility might be that you have had a previously permanently redirect the other way around and your browser has cached this info.

I hope this is not the cast, as it very difficult to fix on a public site.

K
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Earthsaver last edited by

Sorry i meant the htaccess. I am not sure why it would be re-directing twice.. hmmm I have it set to re-direct using the Joomla sh404SEF plugin, so maybe there is an issue there. http://web-sniffer.net/ i do see the correct re-direct.

Will be adding the sitemap today. Site just went live a couple days ago and ironing out some obvious kinks First experience full building and publishing a site on my own so... yea.. headache

Appreciate the input!
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UnderRugSwept @DeptAgency last edited by

I literally watched it change twice in the address bar.
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DeptAgency @UnderRugSwept last edited by

As far as I can see the redirect points to http://earthsaverequipment.com/, so multiple redirects is probably not the issue. Very strange though!?
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UnderRugSwept last edited by

I don't get a 404 error either but I do notice something strange happening.

As I watch the address bar, first I see what I put in: http://www.earthsaverequipment.com

Then it changes to www.earthsaverequipment.com

before finally settling on earthsaverequipment.com once the page fully loads.

I think there are too many redirects in there. What exactly are you trying to achieve? And also, redirects aren't supposed to happen from the robots.txt file, but rather, the .htaccess file.

Too many http requests can slow down the load time of your site, thereby hurting your SEO.
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jeffreytrull1 last edited by

I'm not having any issues testing our your URL on my end. Both URLs there seem to redirect properly to the earthsaverequipment.com address.

Are you sure you didn't simply make a typo?
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DeptAgency last edited by

I do not get a 404 error when i'm going to http://www.earthsaverequipment.com. Also a redirect is not handled through your robots.txt. This file is used to specify which locations a robot is allowed to enter.

You can use http://web-sniffer.net/ to see what header a URL returns, and you will see that your website returns a 301 redirect, as it should.

The robots.txt file can also be used to specifiy the location of your sitemap, which it currently doesn't. I suggest you add this information.
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