SEO issue with Drupal Forums

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Posted by Z2222 on May 18, 2009 at 4:12pm

There is an SEO issue with Drupal's forums similar to the SEO problem with Drupal views where pages that don't exist still send a 200 OK header.

This is the correct URL of a Drupal forum:
drupal.org/forum/1

This non-existant URL also sends a 200 OK header when it should send a 404 Not Found header:
drupal.org/forum/1/asdf.html

An example of where this might cause problems is when you take a non-Drupal forum and convert it to a Drupal forum that has different URLs.

Does anyone know how to fix it so that Drupal sends 404 headers when trying to access a forum URL that doesn't exist?

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Global redirect

Posted by Kristen Pol on June 22, 2009 at 6:08am
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Do you have globalredirect installed?

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Drupal forum seo

Posted by Z2222 on June 22, 2009 at 6:48am
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That's interesting -- the problem happens on Drupal.org's forums (no Global Redirect), but not on another couple of Drupal forums I checked that do have Global Redirect.