How to link Home to / instead of index.html?

[mustang]

I'm using htaccess/mod_rewrite and '.html' page extension so urls look like domain.com/page-name.html.

All is fine except one problem, the 'Home" links go the url domain.com/index.html. I'd like them to go to domain.com to bring up the home page. For SEO purposes consistency thorugh the site is important.

Currently the 'Home' page is the default page. The page alias is 'index'.

Anyone point me to a fix for this?

Thanks,
mustang

[mustang]

I'm fine with the file intself being named index.html. However the links to Home should go to the root (/), not to /index.html.

It is certainly not good if some links on the site go to "domain.com", and some go to "domain.com/index.html" and serve up the same page. The correct method for SEo is to link to "domain.com" when targeting the home page.

[mustang]

Which ones go to "domain.com" ?...

None of the internal links go to domain.com. That's the problem. Internal links should go to domain.com, not domain.com/index.html, or domain.com/home.html.

When others link to the site, do they link to www.domain.com/index.html? Or do they most likely link to www.domain.com? Most of course will link to a www.domain.com. The same should be done with links within the site. For SEO purposes, it's much better.

Anyone know of an easy way to change this?

Thanks!

[akronim]

the trick i use i s this :

1. your default page i.e. index.html should not be visible in the menu
2. then you create a new page which is not a content one but is a link to yourseodomain.com/ and call it home (menutext = home),
and you put it wherever you like in your menu

too simple !!

bye

[mustang]

the trick i use i s this :

1. your default page i.e. index.html should not be visible in the menu
2. then you create a new page which is not a content one but is a link to yourseodomain.com/ and call it home (menutext = home),
and you put it wherever you like in your menu

too simple !!

bye

Works like a charm! Thanks!!

It would be nice if CMSMS would be changed in future so such a work-around is not needed everytime.

Thansk again, akronim !

[mustang]

OK, having an issue with this work-around.

The 'currentpage' class is not being assigned to the Home link when it is the current page. I'm guessing that since 'Home' is simply a link now (using this work-around), it does not know if it is "currentpage" anymore. How can I get CMSMS to recognize it as the current page?

Thanks.

[kermit]

I'm fine with the file intself being named index.html. However the links to Home should go to the root (/), not to /index.html.

It is certainly not good if some links on the site go to "domain.com", and some go to "domain.com/index.html" and serve up the same page. The correct method for SEo is to link to "domain.com" when targeting the home page.

this would be very nice to see.. and to clarify, it would link directly to the SITE root, aka $config['root_url'], not domain root; as cmsms can be installed into a subdirectory.

be nice if it could be done with just .htaccess, but if not:

since any page can be configured to be the site's "default" page, i'm guessing a check would need to be made before replacing the url.. something like: if a page alias = "index" (and it's a top level page) then replace its url with $config['root_url'] (add trailing slash), whenever and wherever that page's link is generated (menus, selflinks, etc) by cmsms.