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Asked: 2026-06-06T13:18:07+00:00

Writing htaccess that allows me to remove index.php from the URL can confuse search

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Writing htaccess that allows me to remove index.php from the URL can confuse search engines because i will have many links that leads to the same page e.g.

http://www.domain.com/index.php/welcome/index
http://www.domain.com/index.php/welcome/
http://www.domain.com/welcome/index
http://www.domain.com/welcome/

As you see, when it comes to SEO, this could be a problem. What can i do to solve this problem?

My .htaccess include the following commands:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /ci_sample/index.php/$1 [L]
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  1. Editorial Team
    1. You should set 301 redirect from all that URLs to one, chosen by you as a main one.
    2. You can add rel=canonical tag on your main page and put the chosen URL there, to inform crawler about proper site address.
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