RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?it=$1 [L,QSA]

[hheyne]

Hello, I have several times discussions with the seo guys about urls in processwire. There are some which are valid with the regular url and also with domain.xx/index.php?it=

What do you think about this? Is it possible to redirect the "domain.xx/index.php?it=" url to a "seo-friendlier" url?

I have this within several projects.

[Wanze]

Hi,

Where are those URLs in the form domain.xy/index.php?it come from? Because you shouldn't see this form. It's used internally by ProcessWire to handle the request from a "normal" url that is made from one or several page names.

[hheyne]

Hi Wanze,

I myself never saw those URLs but sistrix whines about it. Every page has a canonical tag with the right URL and every page has a redirect to one domain and one hostname but sistrix says it finds duplicate content. I'll ask the seo guy tomorrow for more details.

[ryan]

I'm guessing that some new rewrite rule the SEO guys added caused it to start using those ?it= URLs, revealing them when it usually wouldn't. For instance, maybe they setup a rewrite rule that makes /index.php redirect to "/" without getting it quite right, thereby interfering with PW's own rewrite rules. I would suggest removing whatever rule they added that's causing the interference, and then putting your own alternative in a /site/ready.php or /site/templates/_init.php (if using one), like this:

if(preg_match('/(index\.php|[?&]it=/!', $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'])) {
  throw new Wire404Exception();
}

Or if you just want to make it redirect to the homepage, replace the exception line with $session->redirect($config->urls->root); I will add something similar to the core ProcessPageView module to prevent that possibility too.