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        • eyepaq
          eyepaq last edited by

          Hello,

          Please let me know what are the exact right steps in order to get rid of the duplicate content issues related with:

          www.domain.com/index.html same as www.domain.com  without creating an infinite loop.

          Do you have a step by step guide posted within seomoz including 301 redirect for non www to www for all urls and index.whatever to main domain name without going into a infinite loop ?

          btw how to you spot the loop ? is it obvious like never ending refresh of the home page ?

          thanks a lot !

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          • StalkerB
            StalkerB @eyepaq last edited by

            Well, I would recommend you alter the internal links to just point to the new '/' default, but in the meantime...

            I would have thought your code would have worked, but every time I try it my site falls over. It might work for you though. Give it a try but test it straight away 🙂

            I'll see if I can get a different version working on my test site for you if not 🙂

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            • eyepaq
              eyepaq @eyepaq last edited by

              seomoz tool is showing duplicate pages for those 3. Each of the version has at least 1 internal and even external links.

              all 3 respond in the browser with the same layout/page

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              • StalkerB
                StalkerB @eyepaq last edited by

                Hmm, maybe, I doubt the index.php is doing anything as if there's a index.html and index.php the .html takes precedence.

                Check what's in the .php file, might be easier just to delete it.

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                • eyepaq
                  eyepaq @StalkerB last edited by

                  Can I use a code like this ? (i've added one entry for index.php as it looks like the site has both an index.html and an index.php)

                  JourneymanBarry Smith
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                  | Selected AnswerHelpful Answer | Barry Smith, Head of SEO at Gaming Media Marketing | about 2 hours ago |

                  Probably the simplest way to redirect the non-www to the www is to put this in your .htaccess file

                  RewriteEngine On Options +FollowSymLinks

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

                  RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^./index.html
                  RewriteRule ^(.
                  )index.html$ http://www.example.com/$1 [R=301,L]

                  RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^./index.php
                  RewriteRule ^(.
                  )index.php$ http://www.example.com/$1 [R=301,L]

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                  • eyepaq
                    eyepaq @eyepaq last edited by

                    Thanks mate !

                    More then helpful.

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                    • StalkerB
                      StalkerB @eyepaq last edited by

                      Yeah, if it doesn't work you'll probably be faced with a blank page or you may get a 500 server error or maybe a 310. It should be obvious pretty fast 🙂

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                      • eyepaq
                        eyepaq @eyepaq last edited by

                        how it will behave if the redirect is not correct ? It will be visible ? (like a never-ending refresh of the main page)

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                        • Getz.pro
                          Getz.pro @eyepaq last edited by

                          I agree with Barry, but watch out for that last snippet. I've got caught when hosting companies redirect on their side. So test before walking away for more coffee : )

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                          • StalkerB
                            StalkerB @eyepaq last edited by

                            The last part redirects index.html to /

                            There would only be a loop if you redirected / to index.html

                            99.9% sure this'll work for you 🙂 I'm using the exact code on a small site right now and it's working fine 🙂

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                            • eyepaq
                              eyepaq @StalkerB last edited by

                              is the last part safe ? as far as the infinite loop things that some are afraid of..

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                              • StalkerB
                                StalkerB last edited by

                                Probably the simplest way to redirect the non-www to the www is to put this in your .htaccess file

                                RewriteEngine On Options +FollowSymLinks

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

                                RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^./index.html
                                RewriteRule ^(.
                                )index.html$ http://www.example.com/$1 [R=301,L]

                                For reference the .htaccess file goes in the root of your domain via whatever file transfer program you use and of course replace example.com with your domain 😉

                                If you get stuck, let me know 🙂

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