Joomla URL Rewrite - Canonicalization

[panini]

Hi there,

I'm having a problem with canonical URL's on my site hosted in Joomla. I switched one of my sites over to Joomla and the existing Google search results all point at

http://www.domain.co.uk/page.php

but when you click on them you just end up at

http://domain.co.uk/

and not the specific page you wanted.

I used both suggestions below...

RewriteEngine On
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^domain\.co\.uk [NC]
RewriteRule (.*)

http://www.domain.co.uk/$1

[R=301,L]

and

RewriteEngine On
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^

http://www.domain.com$

[NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$

http://www.domain.com/$1

[L,R=301]

Both caused the site to not display ("Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage" in IE). I could get to admin page & login but not hit the URL directly.

Any ideas??

PS. Running PHP 5.2.5 and not very eager to upgrade my version of Joomla.

 

[lebisol]

301 is a permanent redirect no matter what page is hit...to your domain.com

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Do the DW »|MostarNetworks|

 

[ChrisHunt]

Try this:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^domain.co.uk$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ [URL unfurl="true"]http://www.domain.co.uk/$1[/URL] [R=301,L]
</IfModule>

it works on one of my sites (admittedly not running joomla).

-- Chris Hunt
Webmaster & Tragedian
Extra Connections Ltd

 

[panini]

Hi guys,

ChrisHunt I tried your suggestion but the same thing happened...page couldn't be displayed.

I'm really new to URL re-writes and have no idea how to fix this