Need redirect from domain.com/index.php to domain.com

Hi

I just seen that many people are recommending that there should not be 2 same pages on different names like domain.com/index.php and domain.com
So i want to redirect my domain.com/index.php to domain.com
Anyone please give me a redirect which i can add in .htaccess

Thanks in advance !!

 

No one wants to help

 

RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /index\.php HTTP/             
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ http://www.yourdomain.com/ [R=301,L]         

Code (markup):

enjoy

 

thanks for that but its not working
may be because my prior .htaccess data

here is the text which is in my .htaccess

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^((urllist|sitemap).*\.(xml|txt)(\.gz)?)$ vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_getsitemap.php?sitemap=$1 [L]

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^domain\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.domain.com/$1 [R=301,L]

Code (markup):

I just added your code but its giving 500 internal error
please help

Thank you again

 

Replace domain.com with your actual domain name silly.

 

Bro i don't want to show my site here thats why i renamed to domain.com
this does not work - try it yourself
now who's silly

 

Works fine on all 12 of my websites, what does your apache log declare when its called?

 

Ok let me show you how is my .htaccess file

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^((urllist|sitemap).*\.(xml|txt)(\.gz)?)$ vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_getsitemap.php?sitemap=$1 [L]

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^domain\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.domain.com/$1 [R=301,L]


RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /index\.php HTTP/             
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ http://www.domain.com/ [R=301,L]

Code (markup):

1st line is of my sitemap
2nd is of redirecting my URL to www version
and 3rd one is the one you gave me

Is this in a correct manner ?

My apache showed 500 internal error
I think i am going wrong with the proper format of this rewrite rule

Thanks for your help till now

 

Just PM me the site URL and all this code; I'll format it properly for your site URL so it's correct.

 

PM send - eagerly waiting for your reply

 

do you have cpanel? because if you do you can just do it there by clicking redirects.

 

This can be a good idea
I will try this and get back to you
Thanks...