5 replies to this topic

[musiige]

Hey,
The URL of my webshop is currently:

www.myshop/catalog.dk

How can I link it to:
www.myshop.dk

thanks

[Praful Kamble]

@musiige

Just add 301 redirect rule to htaccess.

[14steve14]

Or move all your files up one level and put them in the root folder.

[MrPhil]

Best to do a silent (not 301) URL rewrite in /.htaccess (assuming you're on an Apache server, not IIS):

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond  %{REQUEST_URI}  !^/catalog  [NC]
RewriteRule  ^(.*)$  /catalog/$1  [L]

Visitors will go directly from your site home directory into the store. This leaves all bookmarks and search engine listings pointing to your site intact and working. It does not require any updating of your configure.php files. It keeps osC out of the root directory and isolated in its own subtree, where it won't interfere with anything else. Other applications (blog, forum, gallery, etc.) may easily be installed on your site, along with a "landing page", without fear of damaging your store.

[Jack_mcs]

The search engines may complain if the url in their listing does not match the actual one. Plus, google uses the actual url for determining PR. A url with www can have a different PR of one without it, although I tihnk they are working to change this. The safeest way is to always use 301's when making a change to the url.

[MrPhil]

I didn't say anything about www., but it's a good point that you should settle on one or the other, and use a 301 redirect to force consistency.

I haven't heard of search engines getting upset over a silent change from /index.php to /catalog/index.php, but I suppose that's possible (have to research that... perhaps the problem is duplicate content between / and /catalog/index.php?). If so, it shouldn't hurt to do a 301, so bookmarks and search engine listings will show the /catalog. If you later remove the redirect/rewrite and add a landing page, all the bookmarks and SE listings should be unaffected.