SEO effects of php and html in same url

[Chetanmosaic]

Hello all,

I didn't get where to put this so i am posting it into php section.

Here is my query today i have found a website example.com/index.php/blue-widget.html

I just want to know how much it will be effective as per SEO perspective?

[tedster]

If the URL resolves and does not serve up content duplicated by a second URL, there should be no SEO effect at all.

[g1smd]

I concur.

It's fairly typical of the sort of low quality CMS scripting using a front controller that then has some badly thought out "SEO friendly URL rewriting module" bolted on the front.

It would take hardly any more programming and be a darn site more robust to eliminate the /index.php/ bit and go extensionless at the same time. In fact, it makes the URL rewriting process a heck of a lot easier, using far simpler and much more efficient rewriting rules.

This isn't an osCommerce or Zencart install perchance?

[seoskunk]

Sounds like a shopping cart, maybe magento and they forgotten to switch on mod rewrite function