How do I set up a 301 redirect if the default settings for our web servers create multiple URLs for the same page?

[ibex]

How do I set up a 301 redirect if the default settings for our web servers create multiple URLs for the same page but only views it as one page?

[ibex]

So the server will only let us edit a single page no matter how many URL's it has.

[AdoptionHelp]

To the apache server these URLs are all equivalent:

www.mydomain.com/index.html

mydomain.com/index.html

www.mydomain.com/

mydomain.com/

But to the bots they represent different resources. The best way to deal with this is to set up a 301 redirect to either the www or non-www version, and then use rel=canonical to tell the bots how you want your pages indexed (most likely without the "index.html" part).

If this doesn't answer your question, can you give a little more detail as to what you're trying to accomplish?

[ibex]

GoDaddy

[mozalbin]

Are you using a self-hosted server or a web host? It might be a difference in the settings when doing the requested task that you ask for.