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I am attempting to make my website perform better on search engines. One of the problems I ran into is that when I have my site crawled the search engines are finding 2 versions of the home page:

1. www.thecentraloffice.net

and

2. www.thecentraloffice.net/index.html

I'm wanting to 301 redirect #2 to #1. That would pass all of the link juice and benefits of #2 to #1 and the search engines would not score me low due to duplicate content (which is the current issue).

After reading an SEO forum and Google's WMT I found a prompt that would help me understand how to set up the redirect but I asked tech support and they said that Sonic is using a "custom patch" of Apache. I need someone to give me instructions on how to set up a 301 redirect in a way that works with Sonic's servers. I think it involves the .htaccess file?

None of the 301 redirect codes I'm finding online are working on my site on this server. What is the code for a 301 redirect on your system? Apparently you are on an old Apache 1.3.41 code. I see the question asked by another company but I don't see your answer. Am I missing something?

chrispr8 wrote:None of the 301 redirect codes I'm finding online are working on my site on this server. What is the code for a 301 redirect on your system? Apparently you are on an old Apache 1.3.41 code. I see the question asked by another company but I don't see your answer. Am I missing something?

Our documentation on this is available here: https://wiki.sonic.net/wiki/.htaccess#H ... new_URI.3F

Let us know if you're still having any trouble after this.