Google search delivers faulty URLs which kinda work but not quite

[uvoelkel]

When searching for "symfony e2e environment" the third result I got was a link to the Symfony documentation (Testing) with the following URL: https://symfony.com/doc/current/testing/.html (note the / before .)

The page has the correct content but all the internal links (e.g. everything below "Learn more") comes with an additional /testing/
(https://symfony.com/doc/current/testing/testing/end_to_end.html) which points to a 404 page.

The canonical header also includes the additional /
<link rel="canonical" href="https://symfony.com/doc/current/testing/.html">

[javiereguiluz]

I can't reproduce this by making a Google search. Also, I can't find this broken URL anywhere in the sitemap.xml file that we provide to Google. Not sure how can I debug this 😐

[stof]

@javiereguiluz it would be great if the website could properly handle those URLs that have a / just before the .html, either by redirecting to the right page without that / or returning a 404 (it will avoid the issue with relative links being broken because the website would have used the content of testing.html to render it at testing/.html which is not equivalent for the resolution of relative links)

[stof]

@javiereguiluz I get the same search result when searching on google.de or google.com (it is the third search result for me)