# Addresses and redirects

> How a page gets its address, what happens to the old one when you rename it, and why the homepage lends no segment to the pages beneath it.
>
> From the MightyBuilder documentation: https://docs.mightybuilder.ai/publishing/addresses

How a page gets its address, and what happens to the old one when it changes.

## Pages nest, and the nesting is the address

A page can sit inside another page, to any depth, and its address is built from
the chain:

```
Services                 /services
  Dental                 /services/dental
    Whitening            /services/dental/whitening
```

Move a page and its address changes, along with every page beneath it. There is
nothing else to keep in step — the address is derived from where the page sits,
not stored separately.

## The homepage lends no segment

Your homepage is served at `/`, never at its own slug. A page *inside* the
homepage is at `/about`, not `/home/about`.

## Addresses have no trailing slash

Every address on a MightyBuilder site is written without one — `/contact`, not
`/contact/`. If somebody types the other spelling, they are redirected to the
real one, so a link written either way reaches the page and only one version is
ever indexed.

## Renaming makes a redirect

Rename or move a published page and a **redirect is created automatically**,
from the old address to the new one. Anyone following an old link — a search
result, a printed card, somebody's bookmark — still arrives.

The redirect ships **in the same release as the rename**, so there is never a
window where the new address is live and the old one is broken.

Automatic redirects are marked as such. Edit one yourself and it becomes yours:
the system will not overwrite or remove it afterwards. If the list ever grows
too long, the oldest automatic ones are dropped first and the ones you wrote by
hand are never dropped.

## A page that was never published gets no redirect

There is nothing to redirect from. Renaming a draft is free.

## Disabled, trashed, and the 404

A page can be **enabled**, **disabled** or **trashed**. Only an enabled page is
on the internet — a disabled one stays in your dashboard and is deliberately
kept off the live site. Trashing does not move anything, which is what makes
restoring work. Unlike everything else on this page, a status change does not
wait for Publish: see [Status and trash](/pages/status-and-trash).

You can choose which page answers when an address does not exist. It is kept out
of the sitemap, because telling a search engine to index the page that says
"this does not exist" is the one thing a sitemap must not do.