htaccess redirect question

I have a SEO problem on my website that the site suppliers are looking at - I'm not sure if they will fix it for me though

The problem is there are 2 URLS from each product:

If you access product from the site homepage or site search you get:

http://www.domain.com/products/widget.html

if you navigate through the categories you get:

http://www.domain.com/products/category-name/widget.html

So, my question is: Can I rewrite the second URL to drop the category name, and if so, how do I do it?

Also, what about where the product is a few categories deep, eg.


http://www.domain.com/products/category-name/sub-category/widget.html


Any help much appreciated.

Dave

 

Sorry, just realised this is the wrong forum, should have been in the site and sever admin...

 

in the second page use the redirect(first_url) that will redirect the second page to the first ...

 

Thanks for that, is there any way to set it up so it works site wide (ie. so I don't have to create a new .htaccess entry for every product?)