Google bot Unreachable on 301 redirect iRules
Hello, premise: I'm not managing directly the F5, I'm just the web designer of the company, so I'm pretty new with this kind of stuff; I’m migrating all European websites (ccTLDs) of the company I work for to a global one (.com), and I have some issues with the google boot and 301 redirects. For example, what I'm doing: Example.fr > example.com/fr Example.co.uk > example.com/en-gb …etc.. My system eng. suggested me to implement the redirect with F5 iRules. This means that the actual flow is: Local domain name DNS changed to the F5 IP, inside F5 I put the iRules to redirect the pages to the new global website: i.e. example.fr > F5 > script for the redirect 301 > example.com/fr The iRules code I used is the following: when HTTP_REQUEST { if { ( [HTTP::host] eq "www.kerrdental.co.uk") or ( [HTTP::host] eq "kerrdental.co.uk" ) } { if { ( [HTTP::uri] contains "/AccessoriesForFillingMaterials/AmalgamAccessories/AmalgamGuns" ) } { HTTP::respond 301 Location "https://www.kerrdental.com/en-uk/dental-restoration-products/amalgam-guns-accessories" } elseif { ( [HTTP::uri] contains "/AccessoriesForFillingMaterials/CompositeRestorativeSystems/CompoRoller" ) } { HTTP::respond 301 Location "https://www.kerrdental.com/en-uk/dental-restoration-products/comporoller-accessories" } } } Now, the problem I have concerns the “Change of address” feature in Google Search Console (Webmaster tool): Search Console notify me that “Cannot confirm that 301-redirects work properly, we couldn’t crawl your site. Check that Googlebot can crawl the root of your site using the Fetch as Google tool” Then, when I go under “do Fetch as Google” the system returns me the status “Unreachable”. When I use RexSwain on the HTTP version of the old URL, I get a 503. Receiving Header: HTTP/1.1·503·Service·Unavailable(CR)(LF) Content-Type:·text/html;·charset=UTF-8(CR)(LF) Content-Length:·931(CR)(LF) Connection:·close(CR)(LF) P3P:·CP="CAO·PSA·OUR"(CR)(LF) Expires:·Thu,·01·Jan·1970·00:00:00·GMT(CR)(LF) Cache-Control:·no-store,·no-cache,·must-revalidate,·post-check=0,·pre-check=0(CR)(LF) Pragma:·no-cache(CR)(LF) (CR)(LF) Can someone help me to understand why google boot cannot find anything? Thank you in advance, Best regardsSolved504Views0likes2Comments