Canonical URL’s for Magento

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Canonical URL's for Magento: Currently website has multiple url for one page.

Need to redirect below given url using 301 redirection, example:

http://www.example.com/index.php/
http://www.example.com/
http://example.com/index.php/
http://example.com/

to

http://www.example.com/

Need it for SEO purpose, Otherwise Search Engine is treating each page as duplicate.

score 1 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:58

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You can follow following steps

Enable apache mode_rewrite
http://www.example.com/ in system->configuration->General -> Web -> unsecure and secure
Enable search Engine optimization in System -> Configuration -> Web -> Search Engines Optimizations, select YES
check if RewriteBase / in .htaccess. if DOCUMENT_ROOT is another directory than RewriteBase /MAGENTO_DIR/

Alternatively, you can also redirect to virtual host

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName example.com
    Redirect permanent / http://www.example.com/
</VirtualHost>

This apache redirect from non www to www might be helpful for you

edited May 23 '17 at 11:58

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answered Oct 21 '15 at 10:36

Prakash Thapa

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If you did not change anything index.php Above step 1, 2 and 3 will work without any problem. redirect where? I don't think you have to change anything in VirtualHost – Prakash Thapa Oct 21 '15 at 11:36
If i enter http://www.example.com/index.php/category.html then it should redirect to http://www.example.com/category.html – Ramesh Kumar Oct 21 '15 at 11:37

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 23 '15 at 08:36

Please follow the steps

http://www.example.com/ in system->configuration->General -> Web -> unsecure and secure
Enable search Engine optimization in System -> Configuration -> Web -> Search Engines Optimizations, select YES

Now, add below code in .htaccess file to remove index.php from url

RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^GET.*index\.php [NC]
RewriteRule (.*?)index\.php/*(.*) /$1$2 [R=301,NE,L]

Now add below code in .htaccess file to always redirect to http://www

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\. [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTPS}s ^on(s)|
RewriteRule ^ http%1://www.%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L]

Thanks

Canonical URL’s for Magento

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