Block or redirect index.php

I have a joomla site and google has indexed domain.com/ and domain.com/index.php, so duplicate content for the home page. Is the best option to block index.php (not used my content URLs) in robots.txt, or redirect it to domain.com in .htaccess like:

Redirect 301 /index.php http://domain.com/

If that will even work. Any suggestions?

 

I suggest redirecting index.php to domain.com/. That worked the best for me . Good luck!

 

You need to use the following rewrite code in your .htaccess to do this properly....

RewriteEngine On
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3, 9}\ /.*index\.php\ HTTP/
RewriteRule ^(.*)index\.php /$1 [R-301,L]

Code (markup):

Thats good to go as-is, just copy and paste and yout done.

 

Well, I tried redirecting the way I have above and got endless loop. Then I found this

RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} /index\.php\ HTTP/
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ / [R=301,L]

Now all 4 versions of the homepage are redirected to one. Thanks.

 

Whoops I wrote it wrong, add the (.*) thinking it was a non-www to www lol.

 

yep, redirection is the best way to do although you can use robots.txt to block index.php too. I am surprised joomla's robots.txt do not come up with this!

 

I think your better off with the 301 redirect then blocking it via robots.txt