Question regarding Links and .htaccess

[dharrison]

Hi All

I need a bit of guidance from someone in the know. In Google, I have 3 links pointing to my root (/) and 5 links pointing to my actual home page, which obviously is the same page. I know I can set up .htaccess to so these 2 results can be integrated, my question is what command do I need?

Also I have a redirect from my original site (about 6 years ago).

redirect 301 /index.shtml http://www.xxxxxxxxxx.com/home

My other question is will this line affect the line I would like to add for the / and home page?

Thanks in advance.

[dharrison]

Okayyyy, I haven't been on this forum a while, but mods if this needs to go into Dumb Questions category, then please do feel free to move it there.

[Tiggerito]

I'd personally make the root your home page and redirect the variations to that. Otherwise you will always have a mix of links and redirects for users and search engines to deal with.

Your syntax looks fine.

[dharrison]

Thanks McCreath, but how can I do that? I am up on theory and not so on development.

Thanks in advance.

[weegillis]

Deb, is /home a directory? This is how it might be interpreted.

If you research mod_rewrite I believe you'll find a solution that both canonicalizes the WWW subdomain and removes index.html, etc, from the request URL. Essentially rewriting all request URL's into a single, consistent form: http://www.example.com/. I'd post something, but invariably would be jumping in over my head. I know this is no help, but with some digging, you'll find just what we're talking about here.

[Tiggerito]

I'm on the road at the moment so can't do much.

Google ".htaccess 301 redirect generator bulk" and you should find a tool I wrote to create the code for you. Hopefully that will help you write the right things. Feed in something like:

/index.shtml, /
/home, /

[dharrison]

Hi Tony

It seems to work. Many thanks for that.

Was that created especially for me? lol.

[Tiggerito]

Was that created especially for me? lol.

Of course