How to redirect "index.php" to "index.html" or better, www.sample.com

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Willi Waizenegger Reply #1, 11 years, 2 months ago

I'm having issues with duplicate content on the home page because it seems that index.php is being treated as a different page than www.sample.com/index.html.

I have user friendly URL's turned on. Now, when I go to www.sample.com/index.html, it canonically goes to www.sample.com. That's good.

However, I would like to have the "index.php" home page go to www.sample.com after I type: www.sample.com/index.php.

Right now, when I type www.sample.com/index.php, it remains at that address. Is there a way to make it go to www.sample.com?

MODx doesn't seem to like 301 redirects by way of an .htaccess file. I also tried to redirect index.php to www.sample.com by way of the Redirector component. Didn't work.

My .htaccess file contains this:

# Friendly URLs Part
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} .
# Force all pages to go to www.sample.com for SEO
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.sample\.com [NC]
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.sample.com/$1 [R=301,L]
# Friendly URLs
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?q=$1 [L,QSA]
# Additional Settings Follow
ExpiresActive On
ExpiresByType image/gif A2592000
ExpiresByType image/jpeg A2592000
ExpiresByType image/png A2592000
BrowserMatch "MSIE" brokenvary=1
BrowserMatch "Mozilla/4.[0-9]{2}" brokenvary=1
BrowserMatch "Opera" !brokenvary
SetEnvIf brokenvary 1 force-no-vary

Any ideas? Thanks in advance.

Running MODx Revo 2.2.6-pl
Redirector 1.0.3

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Michael Engel Reply #2, 11 years, 2 months ago

If you want that, write an redirect rule over the main modx rewrite condition like this one:

...
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.sample.com/$1 [R=301,L]

# URL redirects
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ / [R=301]

# Friendly URLs
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
...

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Willi Waizenegger Reply #3, 11 years, 2 months ago

Thanks, Michael, however, it didn't work. I get redirect loop errors.

Anyway, this is really stumping me. [ed. note: waizen last edited this post 11 years, 2 months ago.]

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sottwell Reply #4, 11 years, 2 months ago

I don't think you can do that. The actual request has to be for index.php, and the rewrite is done by rewriting all not-found files to index.php with the actual filename appended = index.php?q=page.html

So you can't prevent index.php from being used.

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Willi Waizenegger Reply #5, 11 years, 2 months ago

Thanks, Susan for responding. If it cannot be changed, then how does one prevent index.php and domain.com/ from being flagged as duplicate content by search engines from a MODx site? [ed. note: waizen last edited this post 11 years, 2 months ago.]

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atype Reply #6, 9 years, 9 months ago

I know this is an old thread but it is important, SEO wise.

I had this problem and it appears to be fixed with the below code (redirects to the www version) as my .htaccess friendly URLs redirect. It should be pretty solid because I also have around 200 lines of custom 301 redirects and it all plays well together.

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /index\.php
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ / [L,R=301]

# Rewrite www.domain.com -> domain.com -- used with SEO Strict URLs plugin
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} .
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.domain\.com\.au [NC]
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.domain.com.au/$1 [R=301,L]
#
# or for the opposite domain.com -> www.domain.com use the following
# DO NOT USE BOTH
#
# RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} .
# RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.example-domain-please-change\.com [NC]
# RewriteRule (.*) http://example-domain-please-change.com/$1 [R=301,L]
 
# The Friendly URLs part
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?q=$1 [L,QSA,NC]

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Willi Waizenegger Reply #7, 8 years, 11 months ago

Quote from: atype at Jul 29, 2014, 02:24 AM

I know this is an old thread but it is important, SEO wise...

Wow, atype, here it is over nine months after you posted your reply and I finally see this (by accident since I was looking for the answer to this question, having forgotten I already asked it :-O ). I guess I didn't have "Email me new replies" box checked.

So, I just tried your solution and it did work. Thank you!