Index.php having more PR than main page - need help with redirect

[abirami]

Hi,

The index.php page in my website has retained the PR in the latest update and the main website www.example.com has lost its PR from PR 6 to PR 5. All the inner pages in the website is having url structure as below,
www.example.com/index.php?sectionID=sdjfds..........

Which is the best method to redirect the index.php to www.example.com so that PR will be retained for www.example.com during the next update?

Will creating a new page for home.php and doing a 301 redirection from index.php to www.example.com work with this type of url structure?

And will the other inner page URLs will be disturbed because of redirecting the index.php to www.example.com?

Thanks in advance.

[edited by: tedster at 2:46 pm (utc) on Mar. 3, 2009]
[edit reason] switch to example.com - it cannot be owned [/edit]

[tedster]

Do not create a third url for your home page, such as home.php. It will only complicate your future even more.

Check into the .htaccess solutions provided by g1smd in this thread: [webmasterworld.com...]

[abirami]

Hi tedster,

Thanks for your reply.

Can you suggest the best redirection method so that the PR obtained for index.php will be passed to the home page www.example.com in the next update?

[tedster]

The method in the linked thread above will do that. And the PR will be combined in Google's back end even before you see new PR numbers exported to the toolbar.

[g1smd]

Be aware that your root home page is at

www.example.com[b]/[/b]

with an included trailing slash.