Solving A Duplicate URL

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Charlie Sage · #1 Post by **Charlie Sage** » 2012-01-13 11:21

I have set up a new website using iWeb.

For some obscure reason the URL is being duplicated. The website is ChessSetHeaven.com and the Welcome page, for example, is coming up as http://www.chesssetheaven.com/www.chesssetheaven.com/Welcome.html.

I have found where to prevent this happening in the future on iWeb but have no idea how to resolve the issue as it stands on the site using Filezilla.

I am told I have to either drag and drop the second file to public.html or copy and paste it but I am pretty new to Filezilla and do not know how this is done. The options are not clear.

Help!

#2 Post by **boco** » 2012-01-13 21:42

If you still have a complete local copy of your site you should start over.

Charlie Sage · #3 Post by **Charlie Sage** » 2012-01-16 16:11

Thank you for the reply, boco. Where would I find this local copy?

Things are getting even more complicated now - for some reason another of my websites - www.KeithBraithwaite.com - is also coming up as http://www.keithbraithwaite.com/www.che ... lcome.html when there should be no connection between the two.

I am very new to Filezilla and have no idea how to solve it all.

#4 Post by **boco** » 2012-01-17 00:00

Well, I have grabbed the index.html document of your server.

Code: Select all

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title>
</title>
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;url= www.chesssetheaven.com/Welcome.html" />
</head>
<body>
</body>
</html>

It is a simple meta redirection which does exactly what you're experiencing: It sends you from the root of the webserver to a Welcome.html document in the subdirectory www.chesssetheaven.com. Added to your URL, it results in the wierd string you're seeing.

I don't know where this comes from, but it's causing your current trouble. A simple 'ping' reveals both your domains point to the very same server, with the chess website in a subdirectory. Since both domain names point to the root of the server, both will be redirected to the subdirectory of the chess website.

http://www.chesssetheaven.com/www.chesssetheaven.com/Welcome.html

So the red part is NOT a doubled URL, but actually the name of the subdirectory the chess website is in.

What you must check for is: Do you have virtual roots for both domains? Can you configure the domain to point to a subdirectory rather than the root?

Charlie Sage · #5 Post by **Charlie Sage** » 2012-02-18 11:06

Thank you for your reply and for doing the research. Unfortunately I have no idea what it is you have written.

I am pretty much a newbie on Filezilla and only really know the basics.

#6 Post by **boco** » 2012-02-19 14:14

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;url= www.chesssetheaven.com/Welcome.html" />

That's the line that matters, the red part especially. Since the URL given here lacks the protocol identifier (http://), it is treated as subdirectory. So the URL (example):

http://www.example.com

would be redirected to

http://www.example.com/www.chesssetheaven.com/Welcome.html

indexfz · #7 Post by **indexfz** » 2012-03-01 03:33

Just to add, maybe slightly off-topic:

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;url=http://www.chesssetheaven.com/Welcome.html" />

content="0 is the number of seconds it takes for the page to refresh, or in this case, to redirect. So if you want your browser to redirect the page in 5 seconds, simply change the content value from "0" to "5". Like so:

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="5;url=http://www.chesssetheaven.com/Welcome.html" />

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