.htaccess problem using POST method
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Hi guys
I'm after some help with trying to achieve the following:
1. Canonicalise to http://www.
2. Remove the index.php from root and subfolders.
I have the .htaccess code below, which seemed to work fine, but the urls use the POST method and this isn't working with the rewrites.
Can anyone please advise as to what I am doing wrong? As you can probably guess .htaccess isn't my strongest SEO discipline!
The code I have is:
http:// to http://www.
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^mydomainexample.com
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.mydomainexample.com/$1 [R=301,L]/index.php to /
Options +FollowSymLinks
DirectoryIndex index.phpRewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /index.php\ HTTP/
RewriteRule ^index.php$ http://www.mydomainexample.com/ [R=301,L]Subdirectory /index.php to /
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]+\ /([^/]+/)index.(php|html|htm?)[#?]?
RewriteRule ^(([^/]+/))index.(php|html|htm?)$ http://www.mydomainexample.com/$1 [R=301,L]Just to add to this I have found this which I think is what I need to restrict it to GET:
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^GET.*index\.php [NC]RewriteRule (.*?)index\.php/*(.*) /$1$2 [R=301,L] Thank you in advance for any suggestions as to how I may put this code together..
Trevor
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Hi Keri
Thanks for the thumbs up
Must be a lot of people out there with the same question; the post on this topic, on my site, gets a lot of visitors.
Thanks again.
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I gave you a thumbs up! Glad you solved this, and I'm sure it'll help someone in the future. Thanks for posting the answer!
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Hi guys
Not sure if I can get mozpoints for answering my own question - perhaps someone can thumb it up
Anyway below is the .htaccess code that seems to work for canonicalization and allowing POST:
http:// to http://www.
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^mydomainexample.com
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.mydomainexample.com/$1 [R=301,L]REDIRECT /folder/index.php to /folder/
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^GET.index.php\ HTTP/
RewriteRule ^(([^/]+/))index.php$ http://www.mydomainexample.com/$1 [R=301,L]Cheers
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