What is the correct htaccess code for Canonicalization?
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I've been working on a clients site and put up the following but when I check back on seomoz i have over 3000 errors and notices and its been crawling a silly amount of pages that don't exist!!
ErrorDocument 404 /404.html
Options +FollowSymLinksDirectoryIndex index.html RewriteEngine OnRewriteBase / RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /index.html\ HTTP/ RewriteRule ^index.html$ http://hiperformanceautocentres.co.uk/ [R=301,L] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule . /index.html [L]
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You haven't redirected www and non www so you need to add:
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^hiperformanceautocentres.co.uk [NC] RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.hiperformanceautocentres.co.uk/$1 [L,R=301]What other errors are you getting? 3000 seems a lot!
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oops - guess i've knackered this page with that code!!
Could you explain what all the code means in detail? I just copied and pasted the original!!
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Okay then you want
ErrorDocument 404 /404.html
Options +FollowSymLinksDirectoryIndex index.html
<code>RewriteEngine on</code><code>RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^.*/index.html?\ HTTP/</code>
<code>RewriteRule ^(.*)index\.html?$ "/$1" [R=301,L]</code><code>RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^hiperformanceautocentres.co.uk [NC]```
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.hiperformanceautocentres.co.uk/$1 [L,R=301] -
This basically says change anything ending index.html to end / using a 301 redirect
<code>RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^.*\/index\.html?\ HTTP/</code><code>RewriteRule ^(.*)index.html?$ "/$1" [R=301,L]</code>
This says redirect anything that starts http://www.domain...... to just http://domain......<code>RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^hiperformanceautocentres.co.uk [NC]``` RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.hiperformanceautocentres.co.uk/$1 [L,R=301] ```</code> -
Thats great thanks for that Chris.
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Should this basically be the htaccess starting point for every website that I create going forward?
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It would be a good starting place for sites that are created in a similar way.
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