Stop startpage redirect

[Ruud]

Many tools warn me that sites I try to optimize (SEO) have a "homepage" that redirects. Meaning that a lot of the inbound links point to the root like http://domain.com, but the actual page shown is http://domain.com/about-us.html (or whatever the startpage happens to be)

Can I disable this behavior? I'd like to have the first page to redirect to the root url instead. So http://domain.com/about-us.html from my example would redirect to http://domain.com instead and http://domain.com shows about-us.html contents.

I'm also not sure how big of a problem it is, but I might be missing linking strength to the actual page that I need it on.

[thyon]

You can use the following .htaccess to do this. You should always redirect your "home" page to the root.

	Options +FollowSymLinks 
	RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^.*/home.html 
	RewriteRule ^(.*)home.html$ http://www.company.com/$1 [R=301,L]

you can also remove the .html is you're not using any suffix.

[Ruud]

Thanks, I had hoped for a Contao solution, but your code works well!