*Solved* Always redirect home page to root?

[Dreamer]

Hi, when I click 'home' on my site I would like to return to the root, not mydomain.com/pages/home.php

One of my templates does this but the other does not and Im not sure what to change.

I've tried the advanced settings for homepage redirection but it does not do what I need.

[ruebenwurzel]

Hello,

The "home page redirection" is exaktly the option you need. If enabled the root page shows only the URL, if disabled it shows the whole path with pages dir.

So if you see no affect, maybe you should clean your browser cache.

Matthias

[Dreamer]

Thanks for the reply,
I cleared my cache and it's the same problem.
The homepage redirect works as expected when directly navigating to my domain, however when navigating to the homepage from an inner-page I still get the long URL on one site.

[Dreamer]

I solved this problem with htaccess, the templates had completely different menu routines which were too complicated for me.

So if anyone wants to redirect their home page to root which looks better just do this:

Code:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^pages/home.php / [R=301,L]

This uses a 301 redirect so any page ranks or incoming links will be preserved for SEO purposes.