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V. van Velzen
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Tuesday 15 September 2009 10:02:14 pm
Good morning,
I'm trying to remove the index.php from the URL, which is working with the .htaccess examples found on this site and ForceVirtualHost=true. The problem is that the old links that point to index.php are no longer working (which is problematic when linking from search engines). I could not find any info on this and was hoping someone could help?
TIA, Vivienne
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Greg McAvoy-Jensen
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Tuesday 15 September 2009 10:11:33 pm
Vivienne, Try adding a rewrite rule to your virtual host file.
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V. van Velzen
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Tuesday 15 September 2009 10:52:12 pm
Hi Greg, I tried adding a rewrite rule in the .htaccess file, but apparently am not very proficient with the way .htaccess works as I could not get this to work. What I tried:
RewriteCond ^index.php(.*)$
RewriteRule ^index.php(.*)$ $1 [L]
RewriteRule .* index.php [L]
The third line was already present to make the virtual host setup work.
Any help would be appreciated. Vivienne
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V. van Velzen
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Wednesday 16 September 2009 10:27:30 pm
Good morning,
I'm still thinking this should be possible, but that there is an error in my .htaccess syntax (see previous post). Has anyone else run into this problem and was able to fix it using .htaccess? I'd appreciate any help.
TIA, Vivienne
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Peter Keung
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Friday 18 September 2009 12:03:10 am
Try being explicit with the domain in the rewrite rule: RewriteRule ^/index\.php(.*)$ http://www.yoursite.com$1 [R=301, L]
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V. van Velzen
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Monday 21 September 2009 6:46:14 am
Hi Peter, Thank you for the suggestion, but it (sadly) does not work. These are the lines I have in my .htaccess file:
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RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/index.php
RewriteRule ^index\.php(.*) http://www.mysite.com$1
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/index.php
RewriteRule .* index.php [L]
###
This causes the browser to show an error message (which is logical in my eyes, as it creates an infinite loop), but I can't see another way to achieve my goal.
Hasn't anyone switched from using index.php to not using it, and found a working solution to make sure the old index.php links are still working?
TIA, Vivienne
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V. van Velzen
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Wednesday 23 September 2009 9:29:22 pm
Hi all,
Sorry for bumping this message, but it's pretty important to get this to work. Does anyone have a solution to the problem of removing the index.php from the address, but keeping the old addresses with index.php working? Pretty important from a SEO perspective...
TIA, Vivienne
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Gaetano Giunta
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Thursday 24 September 2009 1:08:31 am
Rewrite rules are the way to go - you just have to find out the correct set...
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V. van Velzen
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Thursday 24 September 2009 1:41:58 am
Yes, but that seems to be the problem in my case. As you can see in a previous post, I get an infinite loop trying it my way. So any help would be appreciated. Vivienne
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Neo Pixel
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Thursday 01 October 2009 5:11:34 am
Are you sure you added
[SiteAccessSettings]
ForceVirtualHost=true to the correct site.ini.append.php? Mine are usually in settings/siteaccess/eng/site.ini.append.php ???
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V. van Velzen
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Monday 05 October 2009 12:00:10 am
Hi Neo,
Yes, I've added the ForceVirtualHost to the correct site.ini.append.php file. I don't have any problems removing the index.php from the address, I just can't do it in such a way that old links using index.php still work (i.e. links from Google search results). Any help would still be appreciated, as I've yet to find a solution.
TIA, Vivienne
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Neo Pixel
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Monday 05 October 2009 5:30:00 am
Hi Vivienne, I wouldn't worry too much about retaining the google results. If you resubmit the site to google to indictae a fundamental change then the spiders will soon be round to find everything again. :-)
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V. van Velzen
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Tuesday 06 October 2009 2:31:03 am
True, but not only Google has links to the 'old' index.php pages. The site itself also contains those links (complete links added through the EZPublish CMS), as do other 'friendly' sites. And even though we would go through our site to repair those links, in my opinion it's a better practice to just keep those links working...
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