Im just cleaning up my site and sorting out all the 404s in webmaster tools. To fix the 404s I was just putting in a manual 301 in the htaccess file like this.
Redirect 301 /football-rebounders/spot-rebounder/kickster-spot-7-x-7-rebounder.html http://www.quickplaysport.com/football-rebounders/spot/spot-rebounder-7x7.html
This was working fine until I tried to add the line above and I noticed it didnt redirect correctly. I thought it was something Id entered wrongly but couldnt find any problems with it so in trying to diagnose the problem I completely wiped my URL_rewrite table and deleted all the 301s in htaccess but the site kept redirecting even without anything in either of these, so my question is what is making my site redirect now if not the htaccess file or the URL rewrites in the table? I have tried refreshing the cache
The page I have trouble with is this one:
http://www.quickplaysport.com/football-rebounders/spot-rebounder/kickster-spot-7-x-7-rebounder.html
if you click the link, you will see the URL gets forwarded to this:
http://www.quickplaysport.com/football-rebounders/spot//kickster-spot-7-x-7-rebounder.html
so it is seems to be forwarding part of the URL and then appending the rest onto the end of that.
this has really confused me as it had been working fine for the other 50 or so redirects Id added.
Does anyone have any ideas?
Thanks