I'll throw in my two cents worth and agree with Josh. The fact that your
users are clicking on links and not getting a useful response seems like
a much bigger problem than some messed up lines in your log files!
But I'll climb on my soapbox to suggest that you should correct the link
from
http://www.dfas.mil/money/milpay/index.htm/
to
http://www.dfas.mil/money/milpay/
(leave out the index.htm)
Links to index.htm (or default.htm or whatever your server is configured
for) are redundant, and make it harder for you to upgrade in the future.
If at some point in the future you want to have a "dynamic" home page by
using a perl script, or an ASP page, all those existing links to
index.htm will have to be "fixed", and redirected. If instead you just
create links to http://server/directory/ then users will get the page
that the server knows is the "home" page, and you can change
technologies simply by making changes at the server.
(Note that a URL that points to a directory in this way should end in
a /. Most Web Servers will generate a redirect if they are sent to a
directory name without a trailing slash, though they usually don't log
this.
For example:
C:\TEMP>webget.pl -ns -nf http://www.dfas.mil/money/milpay
HTTP/1.1 302 Moved Temporarily.mil ...
Server: Netscape-Enterprise/3.5.1G
Date: Tue, 09 Feb 1999 00:16:25 GMT
Location: http://www.dfas.mil/money/milpay/
Content-type: text/html
<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>Moved Temporarily</TITLE></HEAD><BODY><H1>Moved
Temporarily</H1>
This document has moved to a new <a
href="http://www.dfas.mil/money/milpay/">location</a>. Please update
your documents and hotlists accordingly.</BODY></HTML>
Aengus
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Subject: Re: [analog-help] Problem with Request Report
Author: [EMAIL PROTECTED] at Internet
Date: 2/8/99 4:25 PM
Ed,
Correction to my previous post: The problem actually seems to be with the URL:
line at the bottom of your document. It reads
http://www.dfas.mil/money/milpay/index.htm/ which is where the search engines
are getting it from. If you correct the pages that have that trailing / when
they shouldn't, your problem should go away (once the spiders have reindexed
your site).
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