how can i remove index.php from first page URL ?

[AmirAbbas]

hi

i ask this questiuon in this topic and you said to me to make a new topic for it

how can i remove index.php form first page URL ?

thanks

[dcz]

So, first you want to change the way links are outputted on your forum :

Open

[AmirAbbas]

thanks

i removed index.php forum http://forum.irani.ch
it works like a charm

our forum first page has PR4 without index.php and PR3 with index.php
it seems that pages that ended to trailing slash can obtain more pagerank than pages that ended to index.php or index.html

[dcz]

Good

What about the zero dupe, do you like it

It's as well because backlinks do not generally include index.php.
For phpBB index, www.example.com/ we get the external backlinks, and on www.example.com/index.php the internal.

With this you concentrate both internal and external backlinks on the same URL, it can only be better

By the way, for those without the Zero duplicate so far, here is what to do :

Add this :

[HB.]

hey dcz, thanks for all your help thus far You asked that I continue over in this topic. Whenever you get a chance do you think you could help me with changing the index.php for CH boards? Thank you

[dcz]

So this means you do not find the above code in your index.php file ?

So for Categories hierarchy, you could try adding this :

[HB.]

no this was not found in the index.php. I'll try what you just posted.

[HB.]

I tried your code, but it redirects back to my flash intro

edit: hold on about this. I forgot I had setup a redirect...let me try to remove it first to see what happens

[dcz]

So this is because your are using a page different from index.php when accessing the forum folder (www.example.com/phpBB/ vs www.example.com/phpBB/index.php)

You probably have an index.html file to do this. Both cannot work at the same time, if you want to show you forum index without index.php, you'll need to get rid of the flash intro I am afraid.

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[HB.]

I got rid of the flash intro (this is all on a test site) I also removed the redirect in my cPanel, and now I get a white page when attempting to view the index.

I'm not quite sure what you meant about not having index.php, the path is example.com/phpbb/index.php

I do have smartor's portal installed. I don't know if that makes a difference

[dcz]

What I mean is to do the same as here, try this link : http://www.phpbb-seo.com/boards/index.php

For the portal, yes, it does matter, but it depend if phpBB is installed in a sub folder or not.

As you can see www.phpbb-seo.com/index.php is as well taken care of, in a different folder.

If both portal and forum where in the same folder, you'd probably prefer to see portal.php loaded instead of index.php in such case.

And the same principle could be applied to portal.php, it's just on letter longer :

[HB.]

I think I might have confused you a little (or maybe even myself ) I just wanted to let you know I had a portal. I orginally had for example
www.example.com lead to the flash intro, but I deleted it now ( I meant to delete that long time ago). The flash intro lead to the portal, and from the portal of course you could go to the forum.
The portal.php and the forum's index.php is install on example.com/phpbb/
The portal loads just fine, but when I click the link to the forum from the portal, I get a blank white page. I hope this clears things up a little bit.

[dcz]

hmm, a bit yes.

What append if you load example.com/phpbb/ ?

If it's a blanck page, this mean you either have a index.html blank page in the folder or that you need to set up the DirectoryIndex in your .htaccess.

to :

[HB.]

wow, you are good. I did have a blank index.html file, but I just recently deleted it. I tried inserting that code in the .htaccess, but its still coming up blank. I don't want to waste too much of your time. If it remains showing example.com/phpbb/index.php will that have any negative results far as SEO goes?

[AmirAbbas]