Home and Board index ?

[mrix2000]

Hello all, I have at the top of my board one link called home pointing to the main domain and another right next to it called Board index pointing to /index.php.
I was wondering how I go about removing the Board Index text and link ?
Thanks all
mrix

[KevC]

That's probably one of the most commonly clicked links on your site. Are you sure you want to remove it? It will take away the ability for people to easily get back to the index page.

[Lumpy Burgertushie]

admin panel board settings.

remove what is in the box for main website.
then, where it says "board index text" put in Home.

that way you will only have a link that says Home and it will point to your board index which is your only home page.


robert

[mrix2000]

Hi Robert that worked a treat!
Its a shame the link, links back to index.php though.
From a SEO point of view I wonder if Google and other search engines pick up on / and index.php like duplicate pages ?
Thanks again
mrix

[mrix2000]

Just an update to say that my site now shows in the Google serps with a .index.php at the end of the title sob sob sob
mrix

[Lumpy Burgertushie]

so? what is the problem with that. google does not care at all what the file name is.
if you look at the top sites for any given subject in google you will see that their index/home page is most likely going to be index.php and it will be listed that way.

where would you have the link link to ? the home page of phpbb is index.php where else would it link to?

that link has nothing to do with google or your SERPS, it is there so that your visitors can find their way back to the index.php page, the home page of the board.


robert

[mrix2000]

Hello Robert, I would have it simply link back to the full domain just "/"
This way google serps would just show the title as it is and not have the additional index.php added.

Also I obviously have a lot of links that link directly to the main domain and lots of links that direct to index.php.
I was simply concerned about duplicate urls that point to my main page which is never good for seo.
Thanks
mrix

[Lumpy Burgertushie]

unless you are talking about a different website, index.php is your main domain's root page.

as far as duplicate content, that is from the 90's google no longer worries about that in the way you are thinking.

back then people would create duplicate pages with different urls all with the same text on them trying to spam the search engines. that no longer will even work. however, just like google now understands how dynamic web sites like phpbb etc. work, it also understands that all of that other stuff does not create duplicate content.

so, the only thing that google would penalize you for would be deliberate duplicate content like they used to try in the "old days" of web sites.

I would think that if any of this was a problem that major php based sites like phpbb.com would be having an issue with google about it, and they don't.

luck,
robert

[michaellanfield]

What I think mrix means is he would rather the main page be url.com/forumname
instead of url.com/forumname/index.php

Is there a way to remove the logo or website redirecting to index.php and have it go only to /forumname instead?
Also under the board breadcrumbs, is it possible to have it set to

Board index text: > category > forum

instead of home > Board index text: > category > forum
?

Is there a way to remove the Home part of that and remove index.php from the site url from showing up whenever going back to the home page either clicking on the site logo or through the ACP? Thank you.

[Lumpy Burgertushie]

as in the 3year olf posts above, there is no good reason to worry about the index.php thing.
yes, it can be changed by editing the htaccess file. it does not help anything but if you just don't like the looks of it,
do a search for removing index.php in htaccess file.
what about all the other php files like viewtopic.php, viewforum.php, etc. etc.?

robert

[michaellanfield]

as in the 3year olf posts above, there is no good reason to worry about the index.php thing.
yes, it can be changed by editing the htaccess file. it does not help anything but if you just don't like the looks of it,
do a search for removing index.php in htaccess file.
what about all the other php files like viewtopic.php, viewforum.php, etc. etc.?

robert

Just for the main page, index.php and numbers after it, are unnecessary. I am not sure why it is added there.

[Lumpy Burgertushie]

having the index.php is the internet standard just like if your main page is named index.html it will show up when you are at that url.

yourdomain.com/index.php is the url to the home page of that site.
yourdomain.com/index.html is the url to the home page of a side that using index.html for the main page.

this is the way it works.

the sid ( all those numbers after it ) is part of the phpbb security system.
as long as your board cookies are setup correctly, that sid will only show up on the first page a viewers accesses on the site.
once they click on any link, it will go away.

if you are in the admin panel, it stays there all the time as part of the security system to keep others from being able to piggyback on your session to access your admin panel.

no offense but you are worrying about things that are not a problem at all.


robert

[michaellanfield]

having the index.php is the internet standard just like if your main page is named index.html it will show up when you are at that url.

yourdomain.com/index.php is the url to the home page of that site.
yourdomain.com/index.html is the url to the home page of a side that using index.html for the main page.

this is the way it works.

the sid ( all those numbers after it ) is part of the phpbb security system.
as long as your board cookies are setup correctly, that sid will only show up on the first page a viewers accesses on the site.
once they click on any link, it will go away.

if you are in the admin panel, it stays there all the time as part of the security system to keep others from being able to piggyback on your session to access your admin panel.

no offense but you are worrying about things that are not a problem at all.


robert

I understand. Thank you. I just thought there is way not to show the index.php on the main page when going there.

[Hanakin]

you can try a sitemap ext it should override what google uses as the homepage