SEO and Google Analytics and index.php

[ptrouw]

Hi,
In the global configuration, I have an SEO-friendly URL and URL rewriting, and no suffix. I have a multi-lingual website so, / is English and I also have /de and /nl.
If I look at the Google Analytics stats it shows me /index.php and / as a result pages. Both are the root folder of the English language.
How can I get rite of this /index.php? Should I redirect this in htaccess?

[Rondeb]

Hi,

is it already solved?

You have renamed htacces.txt to .htaccess?

And outside of Google, when you go to your site, the index.php isn't there?

Groeten Ron

[ptrouw]

Hi Ron, no not solved. Yes, I have renamed htaccess, and yes normally the index.php is not showing. It is only listed in Google Analytics.

[seotoronto]

Try to do 301 from all index.php pages to the main one.

[ptrouw]

I will try

[uebloak]

Hello this is Gulshan Negi
Well, there are several ways to do this. However, you can also use a 301 redirect in your .htaccess file to redirect visitors who request the "/index.php" URL to the root directory "/".
Hope it can help you.
Thanks

Hello, I'm intrested by your proposal to redirect "/index.php" request to "/". Can you detail the correct RewriteRule to add to .htaccess file.

I already find a good line to add it. I'm just not confortable with the syntax yet....

[changlee]

Does the RewriteRule work?

[Webdongle]

That rewrite rule is already in Joomla's .htaccess
I use https://extensions.joomla.org/extension/osmap/ and submit the site map to google https://developers.google.com/search
No index.php is listed in google for my website

[Davidsmith89]

Yes, you can use a redirect in your .htaccess file to remove the /index.php from your URLs. Here's an example of the code you can add to your .htaccess file:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,}\s(.*)/index\.php [NC]
RewriteRule ^ %1 [R=301,L]
This code will redirect any requests for the /index.php page to the root directory of your website. This should fix the issue of the /index.php appearing in your Google Analytics stats.

Additionally, make sure that your website's internal links are also updated to point to the new URLs without the /index.php. This will ensure that visitors and search engines are directed to the correct pages.

[Edward Matthew]

Yes, you can use a redirect in your .htaccess file to remove the /index.php from your URLs. Here's an example of the code you can add to your .htaccess file:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,}\s(.*)/index\.php [NC]
RewriteRule ^ %1 [R=301,L]
This code will redirect any requests for the /index.php page to the root directory of your website. This should fix the issue of the /index.php appearing in your Google Analytics stats.

Additionally, make sure that your website's internal links are also updated to point to the new URLs without the /index.php. This will ensure that visitors and search engines are directed to the correct pages.

Thanks Buddy, I need it too

[pishro]

I did it. Are these according to Google's new algorithms?

[jovanddd]

not it's GA4, maybe problem is resolved.

[Webdongle]

I did it. Are these according to Google's new algorithms?

Who knows Google's new algorithms?

[sulla2018]

Ugh, dealing with that /index.php issue in URLs is such a headache, right? I ran into the exact same problem a while back. My solution? I fiddled with the .htaccess file, setting up a redirect to change /index.php to just /. It cleaned up the URLs beautifully and really helped with making the site more SEO-friendly.

[Webdongle]

Ugh, dealing with that /index.php issue in URLs is such a headache, right? I ran into the exact same problem a while back. My solution? I fiddled with the .htaccess file, setting up a redirect to change /index.php to just /. It cleaned up the URLs beautifully and really helped with making the site more SEO-friendly.

Joomla's htaccess already does that

[ptrouw]

Ugh, dealing with that /index.php issue in URLs is such a headache, right? I ran into the exact same problem a while back. My solution? I fiddled with the .htaccess file, setting up a redirect to change /index.php to just /. It cleaned up the URLs beautifully and really helped with making the site more SEO-friendly.

Joomla's htaccess already does that

Hi,
I don't see this in htaccess file. We are using J4. I have added this to htaccess to solve this Google Analytics /index.php thing.
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,}\s(.*)/index\.php [NC]
RewriteRule ^ %1 [R=301,L]

[Pavel-ww]

Joomla's htaccess already does that

Hi. No it does not. You can check by adding /index.php to a link (default Joomla htaccess in use). No redirection will happen.

And in fact, this behavior by default is justified. For example, if you make 301 redirect from index.php to something you can break a site on board of which there is an online store component.

The best, non destructive solution for such problems is to use canonical URLs and the site map. To do this there are various extensions for SEO in JED

[Webdongle]

Perhaps I misread the question? Does the op want to remove /index.php from the url? I thought that was already done by selecting 'Search Engine Friendly URLs' and ' Use URL Rewriting'?

[Pavel-ww]

Does the op want to remove /index.php from the url?

Hi. Yes, you did not understand the question correctly.

OP wanted to get rid of this in the results of the Google search