Canonical tag for home page

[wcksmith]

This question was asked before but I didn't see a clear answer to it.  If I've got a site that has as it's home page: http://www.mysite.com/, and there are many references within the site back to the home page that point to /index.php, should I include a canonical tag in the index.php page like this:

to avoid a duplicate content issue, and to have all juice from both links combined into one?

[RyanKent]

Yes

You should also adjust the links to reflect your preferred version of the URL.

I would always canonicalize the home page. You can also look at SEOmoz home page where they do as well.

<link rel="canonical" href="[http://www.seomoz.org/](view-source:http://www.seomoz.org/)" />

[JarnoNijzing]

Ryan is absolutely right.

also adjust your .htaccess to link to either index.html of mysite.com/

RewriteRule ^.*/index.html http://www.mysite.com [R=301,L]

Or

RewriteRule ^.*/ http://www.mysite.com/index.html [R=301,L]

Hope this helps