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How to automatically redirect all URLs to Pretty URLs?
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AristaP
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Hi,
Now that Pretty URLs are kind of mandatory starting from version 2.3, I have enabled them in my forum.
The thing is that I thought all URLs would automatically be redirected to the new, pretty URLs, but that's not the case. And now I've got two URLs for every page. For example:
http://domain.com/discussion/28766/title-goes-here
http://domain.com/index.php?p=/discussion/28766/title-goes-here
(the two URLs lead to the same page)
I'm not an SEO expert, but I guess Google won't like that at all and might see that as duplicated content, which might lead to penalization, etc.
Is there a way to automatically redirect all URLs to Pretty URLs?
Thank you.
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Vanilla utilizes canonical URL meta tags to tell search engines which URL is the correct one, which means it's not marked as duplicated content. A 301 redirect shouldn't be necessary. If you wanted, you could probably implement one purely in your htaccess file.
Thanks for your reply, @Linc. I appreciate it.
I never noticed the canonical thing. Has it been there all the time? I mean, since I was using version 2.2.1 and non-pretty URLs, I wonder whether the canonical URL feature was working already and showing the URLs without the index.php?p= part.
@AristaP PrettyURLs are available since Vanilla 2.0 (or 1.* but not sure) so I think canonical URL was already here.