: Redirect error in Google Webmaster Tools report I built a CMS and I used it to create the following website http://www.tkdmontecatini.com . After some days, Google Webmaster Tools started to give

@Fox8124981

The problem was that Google doesn't like pages in the sitemap that do redirect. Google don't want redirects at all also if this is done in the right way and using status code 301 or 302 (where necessary) with a good landing page. Thus, there're two possibilites to solve the problem:


Don't let the page in the sitemap to redirect (the pages must give status code 200)
Change the pages in the sitemap with the landing ones.

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@Kimberly868

To solve these kinds of issues, I suggest you use cURL. This is a command line tool in linux / unix and I suppose there are equivalents in other operating systems.

cURL lets you see what the server is returning in terms of headers or output without all the interference of a browser. In this case I use curl -I [url] which shows me just the headers that are returned.

I ran curl -I [url] on the links you provided and they are all returning 302 Temporary Redirect, redirecting the user to other URLs. This could be a problem with your apache configuration or with your CMS.

Here's the output.

greg@greg-desktop:~$ curl -I www.tkdmontecatini.com/it/photogallery HTTP/1.1 302 Moved Temporarily
Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2011 07:21:37 GMT
Server: Apache mod_fcgid/2.3.6 mod_auth_passthrough/2.1 mod_bwlimited/1.4 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635
Expires: Thu, 19 Nov 1981 08:52:00 GMT
Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0
Pragma: no-cache
Set-Cookie: PHPSESSID=4d70b639d7aabf8a2f42c57c595f7610; path=/
Location: /it/photogallery
Vary: Accept-Encoding,User-Agent
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html

greg@greg-desktop:~$ curl -I www.tkdmontecatini.com/it/pagina/9/Informazioni/Corsi/Chi-Siamo HTTP/1.1 302 Moved Temporarily
Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2011 07:22:08 GMT
Server: Apache mod_fcgid/2.3.6 mod_auth_passthrough/2.1 mod_bwlimited/1.4 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635
Expires: Thu, 19 Nov 1981 08:52:00 GMT
Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0
Pragma: no-cache
Set-Cookie: PHPSESSID=99325602d521a419e2cdf7ca279ca995; path=/
Location: /it/pagina/9/Informazioni/Corsi
Vary: Accept-Encoding,User-Agent
Content-Type: text/html

greg@greg-desktop:~$ curl -I www.tkdmontecatini.com/it/pagina/2/Informazioni/Eventi/Eventi HTTP/1.1 302 Moved Temporarily
Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2011 07:22:36 GMT
Server: Apache mod_fcgid/2.3.6 mod_auth_passthrough/2.1 mod_bwlimited/1.4 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635
Expires: Thu, 19 Nov 1981 08:52:00 GMT
Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0
Pragma: no-cache
Set-Cookie: PHPSESSID=aa177b2717c41d0b8deb8dc948a69df6; path=/
Location: /it/pagina/2/Informazioni/Eventi
Vary: Accept-Encoding,User-Agent
Content-Type: text/html

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