By default, Drupal core does not redirect the home page node path to the home page. E.g. I configure the home page to be "node/1". I can still visit node/1. This makes sense, because Drupal also includes a canonical link to the to node, thanks to NodeViewBuilder.
I.e. in the html head:
<link rel="canonical" href="/node/1" />
After installing redirect module, visiting my home page E.g. example.com, will give me the canonical link as above. Now if I'm a search engine, I'll try to follow the canonical link... visit example.com/node/1 and I get served a redirect to example.com. Argh. This is essentially a redirect loop. Obviously not all search engines care, but for example in my case, Google Search Appliance with follow canonical links enabled is dying and not indexing any Drupal content.
Ideally I'd like to see an option to disable redirects for content set to be the home page - to avoid this particular problem.
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