redirect www.domain.com/index.php to www.domain.com/

Is this advisable? Can it be done safely?

[HarryM]

There was some helpful comments on this in an earlier thread but nothing that applied to my specific case.

[webmasterworld.com...]

Until the last PR update I had domain.com/ at PR0, www.domain.com/ at PR3, and www.domain.com/index.php at PR5. Google showed all my PR4+ pages as backlinks to /index.php.

I have redirected domain.com/ to www.domain.com/ and I have changed all my internal backlinks so they point to / only. Google has picked up these changes. The only link remaining to index.php is an external one, but it doesn't show up in Google, even in an allinurl:www.domain.com/index.php.

At this recent toolbar update the PR for / increased to PR 5 as expected. However the PR for index.php has not decreased but is still at PR5, and I have no idea where this is coming from.

Would a redirect from index.php to / help resolve this situation? The previous thread explained how this could be done without causing a loop, but it involved renaming the default page. Are there any other solutions?

[HarryM]

I have re-read the earlier threads and now understand how to do the redirect. My only problem now is deciding whether to do it. Perhaps having a seperate /index.php at PR 5 is beneficial, or is it better to combine the two?