Using rel canonical on /index.php to point to www.domain.com

[DiscoStu]

Is this recommended?

I.e. on domain.com/index.php

put

<link rel="canonical" href="http://www.domain.com/" />

to avoid canonicalization issues (and to avoid the 301 index to domain loop)

[tedster]

I recommend it as standard procedure on every website I work with.

[g1smd]

avoid the 301 index to domain loop

The loop is easily avoided with an extra line of code: redirect index requests only when "index" appears in the original URL request.

This is very easy to achieve on Apache servers and there are hundreds of previous code examples in the WebmasterWorld Apache forum.