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novill:

--- Quote from: James--- on May 06, 2012, 12:13:26 PM ---That's pity because the /index.php is a duplicate version of the root page of the forum.
Duplicate content.

--- End quote ---

I Think it's a SEO reason. :)

Arantor:
It is, for preventing duplicate content, apparently... not that you actually need to need to do it for SEO.

maestrosite.ru:
if you remove index.php from forum urls ($sourceurl without index.php) you forum will be have  broken design. Because, themes (css, js) urls will be contains PHPSESSID param. For example:

--- Code: ---http://__forum__/?PHPSESSID=xxx&/Themes/defaul/css/index.css
--- End code ---

Arantor:
Yes, I know, this is the point I was trying to make ;)

James---:
I think some mod, probably an SEO mod has put a rel=canonical tag on the /index.php root forum page, so
that search engines will use the / page as the canonical one.


--- Quote ---if you remove index.php from forum urls ($sourceurl without index.php) you forum will be have  broken design. Because, themes (css, js) urls will be contains PHPSESSID param. For example:
Code: [Selecteer]
http://__forum__/?PHPSESSID=xxx&/Themes/defaul/css/index.css

--- End quote ---

The idea was not to redirect all /index.php?topic= pages to the root, but only the root index.php page.
That's the one of a forums homepage which is also accessible through the normal / root page. For example:

forumname.com
vs
forumname.com/index.php

leads both to the same page. Duplicate content.
But because I have a canonical tag on the forumname.com/index.php to forumname.com page
it isn't a problem anymore.

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