Re-direct index.html to simply yoursite.com

[EnergyFreak +]

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Please describe in detail the issue you are having:

Hi,

I would like to re-direct www.yoursite.com/index.html to simply www.yoursite.com because I do not want google to give different ranks for both and index both of them as being to two different things.

Thanks.

[seymourjames +]

Google is your friend. Look at creating and modifying your .htaccess file and managing canonical urls. There are lots and lots of tutorials and examples of how to do that.

In particular, look at mod_rewrite for http://yourdomain.com to http://www.yourdomain.com/ and the rewrite you mention.

[Mike-N-Tosh +]

Doing a simple redirect for the page is usually something that can be done in the control panel of your hosting account.

I may be wrong, but I don't believe Google or any search engine would give separate rankings, etc. for the home page of a website (eg. index.html, index.php, index.asp), because all links for the domain then go from the home page and that part of the url disappears. For example, if you went to yoursite.com/search.php there is no yoursite.com/index.html/search.php or yoursite.com/index.php/search.php.

In addition, the index page (home page) of a website by protocol doesn't need to be called specifically which is why you CAN use yoursite.com and it works without specifying what the suffix/extension is for the index file is regardless of what web server software is being used.

[seymourjames +]

There used to be canonical problems with urls but most search engines have overcome that problem now. I use a .htaccess file to rewrite urls mainly for aesthetic reasons. This rewrites index to / and non-www pages to www format.

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

#rewrite index.php to root

RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /index\.php\ HTTP/
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ http://www.mydomain.com/ [R=permanent,L]

#rewrite all non www pages

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^mydomain\.com$
RewriteRule ^.*$ http://www.mydomain.com%{REQUEST_URI} [R=permanent,L,NC]
</IfModule>