index.php 301 redirect

[Igor Sysoev]

On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 05:25:39AM -0700, SE7EN wrote:

> I want to redirect all calls to http://mydomain.com/index.php to http://mydomain.com to avoid duplicate pages.I use this
> if ($request_uri ~* "^/index.php\??$") {
>     rewrite ^.*$ http://$host? permanent;
> }
> 
> but it doesn't seem to work properly. Although it redirects I cannot login or logout anymore in Joomla, it simply redirect to homepage without login or logout. What am i missing here ? How do i do this properly ? Of course if i remove that everything i fine, it works for example for home.html but not for index.php.
> Thank you.

The right way is to use

   location = /index.php {
       rewrite ^  http://$host? permanent;
   }

However, if you have the following configuration:

   location / {
       index  index.php;
   }

   location = /index.php {
       rewrite ^  http://$host? permanent;
   }

then the "/" request will be internally redirected to "/index.php".
Therefore you should use something

   location = /index.php {
       if ($request_uri = /index.php) {
           rewrite ^  http://$host? permanent;
       }

       ...
   }

How do login and logout URLs look ?


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