A little help - explanation

[Bun]

I've been creating a sitemap for google and the software I'm using has come back with this error message:

URL:http://www.ecclestonanglingcentre.co.uk/acatalog/
Error:HTTP-Error 403 Forbidden
Linked from:http://www.ecclestonanglingcentre.co...CTION=SHOWCART

Can anyone shed any light on the subject?

Kind regards

[pinbrook]

Yes, your host dissallows anyone from viewing the contents of acatalog folder. This is a security feature as you do not have an index file there.

type http://www.ecclestonanglingcentre.co.uk/acatalog/ into a browser..... to see what I mean.

You can not use a folder name as a URL in your google sitemap if you do not have an index.html file within the folder.

I suspect you are using shop.html or similar for your main entry page to acatalog.

[Bun]

Yes - the index.html file is situated 1 level up from the Acatalog folder and there is a shop.html file in the Acatalog folder.

So having the index.html outside the Acatalog folder is okay?

It's just that when checking my server stats I seem to quite a few page errors connected with the http://www.mysite.co.uk/acatalog/ and was wondering if everything's okay?

[pinbrook]

in a perfect world you will have 2 index.html files

one at root, the other within acatalog.

[Bun]

in a perfect world you will have 2 index.html files

one at root, the other within acatalog.

Could that not be achieved by changing the shop.html to index.html?

[pinbrook]

yes it could, indeed thisis the best solution.

Althought you may also need to forward all traffic from shop.html to index.html to avoid loosing visitors

[Bun]

yes it could, indeed thisis the best solution.

Althought you may also need to forward all traffic from shop.html to index.html to avoid loosing visitors

And this would be done via a simple 301 redirect command Jo

[pinbrook]

yes, you are correct.