301 Redirect from index.php to /

Help redirecting index.php to / on windows server

[bobble]

Hi

I have a site running on a Windows server (IIS) which is currently being optimised. The SEO guys have recommened that i set a redirect for ***.domain.com/index.php to forward to ***.domain.com/ as Google is indexing ***.domain.com and ***.domain.com/index.php as seperate entities.

All the 301 redirects done previously have been done in IIS through the permenant redirection tool in the Home Directory tab for the site profile. If i do this for the index.php (to permenantly redirect to ***.domain.com) then its going to get stuck in an infinate loop as IIS is loading index.php by default which in turn is redirecting back to ***.domain.com and so on. Obviously removing the default document type is just resulting in directory listing.

Can anyone help with how i may be able to achieve what they are asking? Im pretty stumped.

Thank you in advance.

[darrenG]

You need to something like:

$host = $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'];
$uri = $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];

if($host == 'example.com' ¦¦ $uri == '/index.php') {
header("HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently");
header("Location: http://www.example.com/");
}

[Gemini23]

Would this not work? in the head code of the page
<META http-equiv="refresh" content="0;URL=http://www.example.com/index.html">

[edited by: encyclo at 7:36 pm (utc) on April 10, 2009]
[edit reason] exemplified [/edit]

[darrenG]

No, as the meta tag will be present on both the .com and .com/index.php pages, unless you use an if statement to conditionally add the meta tag, on the backend. But then, why force the browser to download a page only to then find out it must redirect.

Also, the meta method doesn't allow the status code to be set in the header i.e. 301...

[hatworru]

So will this code work if we're working in ASPX? (i.e. index.aspx?

$host = $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'];
$uri = $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];

if($host == 'example.com' ¦¦ $uri == '/index.aspx') {
header("HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently");
header("Location: http://www.example.com/");
}

Cheers

[benu aggarwal]

I would handle the redirect through ISAP rewrite plugin