.htaccess index.php

[Filipsa]

Hi
I already have some important links to my english side of website
mysite.com/index.php/en

after renaming htaccess.txt to .htaccess now I have both
mysite.com/index.php/en and
mysite.com/en
what is of course a duplicate content

mybe its best to 301 redirect mysite.com/en to mysite.com/index.php/en

mysite.com/en will be counted as new page

I know mysite.com/en will get link equity from mysite.com/index.php/en but it will take some time for search engines credit mysite.com/en with the rankings and trust of mysite.com/index.php/en

As I can not afford this I would just like to have same url structure as before renaming htaccess.txt to .htaccess

Can someone help me code for .htaccess please?

[Per Yngve Berg]

Have you submitted a site map to Google?

Set the URL without the index.php as canonical.

[Filipsa]

I don't want to make a canonical page but I tried this

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# Use PHP70CGI as default
AddHandler fcgid70-script .php
AddHandler application/x-httpd-php70 .php
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>


Redirect 301 /mysite.com/en http://www.mysite.com/index.php/en
Redirect 301 /mysite.com/fr http://www.mysite.com/index.php/fr

What do You think?
Is this right way to do it?
Im worried not to messup my rankings...

[Filipsa]

Any suggestions, please?

[AcerPK]

# Redirect html pages to the root domain
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ / [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^(.*)/index\.php$ /$1/ [R=301,L]

[Simon_J]

I would recommend to drop the index.php in the URL, as it will only make it longer. So go for the mysite.com/en if you ask me.