index.php not redirecting when using WP Super Cache

  • caryam

    (@caryam)


    14 years, 6 months ago

    Hi,

    I installed WP Super Cache today, and I love how fast it makes my pages, but I’ve noticed that URLs ending in /index.php are no longer redirecting.

    Funny thing is, they still redirect for my home page; aka http://www.mypage.com/index.php still redirects to http://www.mypage.com, but my individual post pages do not, aka: http://www.mypage.com/10/2009/todays_post/index.php

    Even funnier thing — I am now discovering that they DO redirect correctly on a Windows machine running IE and also Firefox, but not on a Mac running Firefox (strangely, they still work when i use Safari!)

    Any ideas? Is this even a problem? I’m trying to avoid duplicate content here. If I turn off caching they work fine again.

    Thanks in advance!
    Cary

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  • Donncha O Caoimh (a11n)

    (@donncha)

    14 years, 6 months ago

    Were you logged in when you tried the post redirect? I just replicated that. It shouldn’t be too much of a problem unless there are lots of links to todays_post/index.php around the ‘net. If the link isn’t there, Google isn’t going to index it.

    I’m pretty sure Google is smart enough to realise they’re the same page anyway as index.php is such a common directory index page.

    I’ll look into this though and get it fixed.

    Donncha O Caoimh (a11n)

    (@donncha)

    14 years, 6 months ago

    Try again with a browser that has no cookies for your site. I noticed the redirect was broken only when I visited with the WordPress test cookie or I was logged in.

    I tried in Safari(no cookies) and it redirected just fine, in a blog post and on the homepage. Google’s bot doesn’t use cookies so the redirect will operate just fine.

    Thread Starter caryam

    (@caryam)

    14 years, 6 months ago

    Thanks for your quick response, and for a great plugin 🙂 My blog is sooo much faster using WP Super Cache.

    Yes you’re right. I deleted my cookies for the site and the redirect worked fine.. Sounds like it won’t be a problem.

    Thank you!

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