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Redirecting the Homepage
Posted: Tue May 08, 2007 4:18 pm
by pgoneill
I noticed on a site I'm developing that:
www.domain.com and
www.domain.com/home/
...will go to the same location. If a content editor creates a "CMSMS Link" to the content item "home" it'll go to that second URL. This isn't a huge deal, but for SEO purposes, it can't hurt to redirect "/home/" to "/".
So, I added the following to my .htaccess file:
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Redirect 301 /home/ http://www.domain.com
But that just sent me to
http://www.domain.com/?page=home/
Well, the solution was to create an empty, physical directory called "home" in the site root.
Now, CMSMS still creates links like
www.domain.com/home/, but that will automatically redirect to
www.domain.com.
http://www.domain.com/?page=home/ still works, but CMSMS shouldn't generate links to it and it shouldn't appear anywhere for bots to pick up.
Re: Redirecting the Homepage
Posted: Tue May 08, 2007 5:06 pm
by Pierre M.
Hello,
As the order of the lines in the .htaccess matters, this Redirect is inactive if you have put it under the /?page= rewrite.
I agree with you on the / and /home "double home bug". May be you can rename/delete the alias of the homepage so there is only / ? But I prefer your Redirect solution.
Pierre M.
Re: Redirecting the Homepage
Posted: Tue May 08, 2007 5:41 pm
by pgoneill
Well, I tested several different variations and placements within the .htaccess file and got the same result each time.
Using this, currently:
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Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
# 301 Redirect all requests that don't contain a dot or trailing slash to
# include a trailing slash
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !\.
RewriteRule ^(.*) %{REQUEST_URI}/ [R=301,L]
# Rewrites urls in the form of /parent/child/
# but only rewrites if the requested URL is not a file or directory
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.+)$ index.php?page=$1 [QSA]
Redirect 301 /home/ http://www.domain.com
Re: Redirecting the Homepage
Posted: Tue May 08, 2007 7:26 pm
by tsw
Its not that easy to make default page links different from others..
redirect sounds overkill to me
one idea is to change your default page alias to index and set prettyurls to use .html end, this solution shouldnt affect SEO as it would be domain.tld/ and domain.tld/index.html
We'll continue to think about this
Re: Redirecting the Homepage
Posted: Tue May 08, 2007 9:11 pm
by tsw
ok, I thought of this some more and you can try this, its not fully tested but should work (please tell if it works and it will be added in 1.1)
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Index: lib/classes/class.content.inc.php
===================================================================
--- lib/classes/class.content.inc.php (revision 3913)
+++ lib/classes/class.content.inc.php (working copy)
@@ -1276,6 +1276,12 @@
$config = &$gCms->GetConfig();
$url = "";
$alias = ($this->mAlias != ''?$this->mAlias:$this->mId);
+
+ if($this->mDefaultContent) {
+ $url = $config['root_url']. '/';
+ return $url;
+ }
+
if ($config["assume_mod_rewrite"] && $rewrite == true)
{
if ($config['use_hierarchy'] == true)