2 home page domains causing split in link juice

[devonkrusich]

We have 2 home page domains that are resulting in a split in links.  We have mysite.com and mysite.com/index.php.  The site is on Joomla and when we try and re-direct the /index.php to just mysite.com is causing an infinite loop.  I have done this on other platforms with no problems - is this an issue because of Joomla?

How can we complete a 301 re-direct to consolidate our link juice to one domain url?

[Kotkov]

That is not two separate domains. Don't matter joomla it is or wordpress. You just need to redirect index.php to / serverside.

find a .htaccess file in your root folder

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /index\.php\ HTTP/
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ http://www.example.com/ [R=301,L] 

[loopyal]

If that is causing an infinite loop, then you may have some other code working against the redirect you set up.

[KeriMorgret]

Hi Devon,

Were you able to get this sorted out, or are you still looking for some help?

[ssoneil]

Try changing mysite.com/index.php to mysite.com directly in the database. Backup first.