Redirect Question, how to end up on index?

I know this may have been addressed in the past, I need to explain why I need to figure this out.

When someone visits our site, they land on the www.thesite.com and you happen to have a Facebook, or AddThis and the like.

The visitor clicks like and all is good, now as the member/visitor navigates the site, and goes back to the home page, it is always re written as "www.thesite.com/index.php" therefore making the Facebook like counts vary, looks very stupid.

Main page has thousands of likes, when navigating and getting back to the index, it show maybe 78 likes or so.

How can I make the site always just show the www.thesite.com when on the index page without the "index.php?"

oh well probably redirect all visits to index.php -> /

EDIT: This is something. Not tested at all

if(strpos($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'], 'index.php') !== false)
        header('Location: '.BX_DOL_URL_ROOT.'');

Put that in index.php anywhere after 'header.inc.php' is included.

You can try this.

Edit index.php.

Right after this line.

define('BX_INDEX_PAGE', 1);

Add this line.

if($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] == '/index.php') header ('Location: /');


NOTE: I have not tested this under all conditions. But seems to work. It allows URLs that contain get params which it should, so it should be ok.

 
Ah, you must have edited your post. I did not see your code before.

I've been out all day on service call.

Thanks for the super fast response guys. I'm about to apply this and check.

Thumbs up from me.

This is going on EVERY single site I own!

This should be a core change.

This really affects all social share links from any sites index page.

It worked fine? you tested it very well?

I had a feeling its not enough.

 I do it in the .htaccess as a permanent redirect. You can put this under RewriteBase /

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

I think this might be better from an SEO point of view. Google used to dislike php redirects but they change what they like and dislike about once a month so who knows.

Ok, i tested and as i thought ajax request was the problems. Here you go..

The better code with mscott recommendation.

if(strpos($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'], 'index.php') !== false && !isset($_SERVER['HTTP_X_REQUESTED_WITH']) && strtolower($_SERVER['HTTP_X_REQUESTED_WITH']) !== 'xmlhttprequest') {
        header ('HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently');
        header('Location: '.BX_DOL_URL_ROOT.'');
        exit;
}

EDIT: Put this just before "check_logged();" in index.php.

This should play better with google cuz its a 301 redirect.

Enjoy!

 Yes, been testing all night.

I think this might be better from an SEO point of view. Google used to dislike php redirects but they change what they like and dislike about once a month so who knows.That does not bother me. I'd rather have "true" likes, I do just fine on the SEO part.

From a compatibility point of view, which is the better option, Prashanks or MScotts code?

If Prashanks, where exactly do you put the code as it did not work when I tried it.

Stuart

I suppose mscott code doesn't take ajax calls in consideration like our old piece of code so i think mine is more "compatible".

Oh and i edited the above post to tell where to put it.

Many thanks for that!

I liked MScott's htaccess way of doing things, it bypass's the 'updates' problem! However, re compatibility I have implemented your solution.

Is there a way to do this for ALL the url's?

Stuart

 what?

I still get stuff like "m/listing/home/", is there a way to clean this up in the same way we have done with the index page?

well, nop. You can search the forum for some ways to remove "m" from the url thats max that can be done.

Ok, thanks Prashank.

Stuart

I changed mine to the new fix and it still works. Thanks!