301 /index.php > .com

Hey,

I have searched around and can't for the life of me find away to 301 www.mydomain.com/index.php to www.mydomain.com

I'm guessing it is very easy and I'm just looking in the wrong places or it's a little harder then I though.

Anyone have any idea?

This is from my VB advanced front page by the way. Thanks to VBSEO my forum does this already.

Hello,

you can create .htaccess in domain root:

Code:

RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} /index\.php
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ http://www.domain.com [L,R=301]

Awesome, thanks

Worked perfectly.

I just found another one.

www.mydomain.com/index.php?pageid=home

The current rewrite from above removes the index.php but leaves behind the ?pageid=home so it looks like http://www.mydomain.com/?pageid=home

Anyway to make that just www.mydomain.com

Thanks for the help.

Php?

I'm assuming you mean is it running php?

If so yes....

No, I mean do it via PHP:

PHP Code:

<?php if ( 'home' == $_GET['pageid'] ) { header( 'Location: http://www.mydomain.com/' ); } ?>

Stick that at the top of your index.php file.

I get this on the main page?

Code:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '<' in /home/surfaus/public_html/index.php on line 2

Line 2 is where I placed that code.

Change rewrite rule to:

Code:

RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} /index\.php
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^$
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ http://www.domain.com [L,R=301]

Or even better!

Originally Posted by Oleg Ignatiuk

Change rewrite rule to:

Code:

RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} /index\.php
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^$
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ http://www.domain.com [L,R=301]

Thanks but all that did was make it go back to

http://www.mydomain.com/index.php?pageid=home

I would like that to rewrite it to www.mydomain.com.

I will also be adding other pages to vbadvanced that will have the same URL structure so I would like to be able to rewrite them too if possible.

Any ideas?

Thanks for the help so far.

Change the second line to:
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^(pageid=home)?$

It's still leaving behind the the /?pageid=home on the end. That still leads to a copy of my front page.

This is what I have at the moment.

Code:

Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
rewritecond %{http_host} ^surfaus.com.au [nc]
rewriterule ^(.*)$ http://www.surfaus.com.au/$1 [r=301,nc]

RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} /index\.php
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^(pageid=home)?$
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ http://www.surfaus.com.au [L,R=301]

index.php gets changed too /

index.php?pageid=home gets changed too /?pageid=home

I would be happy at the moment if I could even just make /?pageid=home 404 but it just loads the front page and duplicates the content once again.

Thanks for the help,

Anymore ideas would be great. I have no idea how to do this, so your my last hope.

Mm.. please try this as the last line:

Code:

RewriteRule ^index\.php$ http://www.surfaus.com.au/? [L,R=301]

YEH!!

One step closer.

/index.php?pageid=home now goes to / which is awesome.

Everything is great now except that /?pageid=home which has already been indexed and still shows the front page.

Is there anyway to make this rewrite to / or even just 404?

Yay!

Everything is great now except that /?pageid=home which has already been indexed and still shows the front page.

You should add one more rewrite rule then:

Code:

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^pageid=home$
RewriteRule ^$ http://www.surfaus.com.au/? [L,R=301]