The home page that redirected to a shop

Moving an old directory to a new site means every old address has to land somewhere. Redirects generated by an importer, checked by a script. Every address in the old sitemap resolved. A second run changed nothing. A row deleted on purpose made the check fail, and named the row.

And the importer had written a redirect from the home page to one business’s listing.

It was a perfectly valid redirect. Every check for valid redirects would pass it. Anyone visiting the town’s website would have arrived at a shop.

The writer now refuses it, and the check fails on it. A reconciliation proves that nothing was lost. It has no opinion on whether what arrived is sane.