How to reroute index.php to root domain for SEO purposes
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- fewleh
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Hey there, I'm trying to route index.php to the root, to save duplication etc....it works well, using htacess, but when you start going through the checkout pages, (they are domain.com/index.php) they get re-routed to the root domain......which makes sense.....so is tehre another way of doing it? Or is that it - I can't use htaccess rule on index.php --> root? I hope someones heard of a solution
I'm using virtuemart & mynxx, my url is www.iquarium.co.uk/
Thanks for any thoughts rocketeers :arrowu: - www.cityinsurance.co.uk
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- Arifin FinLy
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- It seems to be the Virtuemart issue. You might want to check this solution
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- fewleh
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- hmm, doesnt seem to work..I tried changing the $_SERVER) to ($_SERVER) put in the htaccess command to redirect index.php to / , and it just hangs when you try and add something to the cart. =[ Will try again some other ways, later on, thanks for your suggestion
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- fewleh
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- Just tried a few other methods discussed on those forums, but doesnt seem to fix it....I will leave the setup as it was, at least it worked :c) Hopefuly the SEO impact of not redirecting index.php to root will be minor?
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- fewleh
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w00t! - fixed it....it ened up being a problem with the redirect....tried lots of different combinations..and tried updating core joomla files and vm files...in the end I put them all back to standard. (apart from, I'm using an updated seo friendly router.php that I downloaded from VM extensions website)
I changed it to -
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^iquarium.co.uk [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ www.iquarium.co.uk/$1 [L,R=301]
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^GET\ .*/index\.(php|html)\ HTTP
RewriteRule ^(.*)index\.(php|html)$ /$1 [R=301,L]
This gets the all ok from www.searchmasters.co.nz/redirect-check/ and the checkout works all the way to the end
Thanks as always Arfin, your a legend
Hopefully this can help someone else, if they want SEO friendly website with virtuemart and a rockettheme template - www.cityinsurance.co.uk
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- Arifin FinLy
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Wow, thanks for your sharing Fewleh Appreciate it so much
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- fewleh
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fewleh wrote:
w00t! - fixed it....it ened up being a problem with the redirect....tried lots of different combinations..and tried updating core joomla files and vm files...in the end I put them all back to standard. (apart from, I'm using an updated seo friendly router.php that I downloaded from VM extensions website)
I changed it to -
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^iquarium.co.uk [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ www.iquarium.co.uk/$1 [L,R=301] <
rewrite for non-www to www
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^GET\ .*/index\.(php|html)\ HTTP
RewriteRule ^(.*)index\.(php|html)$ /$1 [R=301,L] <
rewrite for the index.php (& .html) to root
This gets the all ok from www.searchmasters.co.nz/redirect-check/ and the checkout works all the way to the end
Thanks as always Arfin, your a legend
Hopefully this can help someone else, if they want SEO friendly website with virtuemart and a rockettheme template - www.cityinsurance.co.uk
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