Index.php and 301 redirect with Joomla

[NaescentAdam]

Hi,

I'm running Joomla 1.7 with SEF on and I'm trying to do a htaccess redirect which fails.

I have approximately 100 in effect so far and all working fine, but I have one snag. Index.php is not working as I need it to when it's redirected to www.myurl.com/

If I turn on index.php redirect to root using this code

#index.php to root
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^myurl.com$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.myurl.com$
RewriteRule ^index.php$ "http://www.myurl.com/" [R=301,L]

And then go to www.myurl.com/test.html I'm redirected to the homepage. I think this is because all pages are index.php in joomla. SEOMOZ and Google both think that index.php and root are duplicate pages.

Does anyone have any advice for overcoming this?

Thanks,

Adam

[SanketPatel]

Hi Adam,

I have searched for your problem in Joomla forum and find below thread:

http://forum.joomla.org/viewtopic.php?t=598832

In this thread they have mentioned out the whole process of redirecting index.php to home page.

Hope this help....