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Cleaning Up Broken URLs with Extra Slashes Before They Cause 404s
A URL like <code>.ru///page.html</code> is not just ugly. It is a routing and indexing problem waiting to spread.
The original note called out malformed URLs containing repeated slashes, for example variants like .ru///page.html. These usually appear through broken concatenation logic, migration leftovers, or weak redirect rules.
Why this matters
- search engines can discover multiple malformed variants of the same page
- routing rules may treat some broken forms differently from others
- analytics and cache behavior become harder to trust
What to do
Normalize repeated slashes early in the request flow and make sure the canonical public URL is emitted consistently. If malformed URLs already exist in the wild, redirect them once instead of allowing them to multiply.
This is a small cleanup task, but it has outsized impact on stability because URL noise tends to spread unless the project actively rejects it.
Fixing “Call to undefined function startCMSSession()” in API Scripts
Why API-mode scripts can fail with an undefined startCMSSession error and what that usually means about the bootstrap sequence in Evolution CMS.
Fixing tagManager AJAX Pagination That Falls Back to 404 Pages
Why tagManager filtering with AJAX can start returning 404s on paginated URLs and how to keep state, routing, and pagination aligned.