Wiring a red, black and white light fixture

[toasty]

I just removed a ceiling light to find two sets of wires coming in that were both hooked up to the light fixture. One set has red, black, white, and copper wires, whilst the other set has just black, white, and copper. The blacks are connected to each other and nothing else. The single red was connected to the live of the lights and the two whites were connected to each other and to the neutral of the lights.

My question is, is this setup correct? When installing the new fixture, do I install it exactly as before? That is, leave the blacks connected and hook the red up to the live of the lights and connect both whites up to the neutral if the lights?

Any advice would be appreciated as this setup is new to me.

 

[Dennis Alwon]

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