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How can I get index.php to go to index.html with out using a
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- Daniel A Wright
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Help required regarding home page. With out using a 301 redirect I would like to be able to type in the url as
www.domain.com/index.html
with out getting a 404 error. I've tried it with a 301 and it works BUT shows
www.domain.com/index.html
whenever you type
www.domain.com/
. Any help would be much appreciated.
Thanks
Danny
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- Franck
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If I understand what you mean, you want to be able to access your main page with
www.yourdomain.com
or
www.yourdomain.com/index.html
, right?
Not sure to understand what you want to do Danny.
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- Daniel A Wright
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Hi Franck,
I have would like to be able to remove the .php on the index. The whole site shows .html but the index runs as a .html. I would like to have bots index the site as a html BUT when you type the domain I want it to come up as " www.domain.com " and only if you type index.html to would also show as the home page.
Thanks Franck
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- Franck
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OK, I understand now. I don't know how to change the .php into .html but if you set correctly a 301 redirect in your .htaccess you will always have
www.yourdomain.com
and not
www.yourdomain.com/index.php
and the benefit is to avoid duplicate content.
add this code in .htaccess and don't forget to put your domain name.
# Redirect requests to index.php RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /index\.php\ HTTP/ RewriteRule ^index\.php$ http://www.yourdomain.com/ [R=301,L]
Hope this help.
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- Daniel A Wright
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Hi Franck,
Thank you I think I understand, this is what my htaccess file looks like for:
########## Begin - Joomla! core SEF Section
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RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/index.php
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} (/|\.php|\.html|\.htm|\.feed|\.pdf|\.raw|/[^.]*)$ [NC]
RewriteRule (.*) index.php
RewriteRule .* - [E=HTTP_AUTHORIZATION:%{HTTP:Authorization},L]
#
########## End - Joomla! core SEF Section
Are you saying I but your code in so it would look like this:
########## Begin - Joomla! core SEF Section
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RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/index.php
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /index\.php\ HTTP/
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ www.yourdomain.com/ [R=301,L]
RewriteRule .* - [E=HTTP_AUTHORIZATION:%{HTTP:Authorization},L]
#
########## End - Joomla! core SEF Section
Thanks Danny
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- Franck
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Hi Danny,
You don't need to put the code into the SEF part of your .htaccess, just insert the code before and it should work fine:
# Redirect requests to index.php RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /index\.php\ HTTP/ RewriteRule ^index\.php$ http://www.yourdomain.com/ [R=301,L] ########## Begin - Joomla! core SEF Section # RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/index.php RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /index\.php\ HTTP/ # ########## End - Joomla! core SEF Section
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- Daniel A Wright
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Hi Franck,
Can I ask what the difference is between the below:
# Redirect requests to index.php
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /index\.php\ HTTP/
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ www.yourdomain.com/ [R=301,L]
VS
Redirect 301 "/index.html" http://www. yourdomain.com/index.php
Thanks
Danny
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- Franck
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index.html doesn't exit in you root folder so there is no need to redirect an unknow file.
The code I sent will redirect www.yourdomain.com/index.php to www.yourdomain.com
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- Daniel A Wright
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Hi Franck,
The thing is the old site had a index page which was a .html and Google webmaster is say there is 64 links to the index.html.
Thanks Danny
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- Franck
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So, you can try to add the code twice in your .htaccess (I never tried before but should work) like this:
# Redirect requests to index.html RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /index\.html\ HTTP/ RewriteRule ^index\.html$ http://www.yourdomain.com/ [R=301,L] # Redirect requests to index.php RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /index\.php\ HTTP/ RewriteRule ^index\.php$ http://www.yourdomain.com/ [R=301,L]
Another solution is to find all broken links to index.html and remove all of them
You can use Xenu free :software to do this job:
home.snafu.de/tilman/xenulink.html
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