Ceon URI Mapping (SEO)

[conor]

Hi,

Actually, I have the same thing happen to me. I usually put up an index.html "coming soon" page while the ZC website is still in progress, and that page is passed over in favor of index.php after I install CEON with its pre-packaged settings, thus "activating" the website whether i want it live or not.

Actually, that's not true. What is happening is that after you install Ceon URI Mapping, it becomes responsible for

/

/index.php

/index.php?main_page=

etc.

It is never responsible for /index.html

However, most people will see the root of a site as / so unless they come directly to /index.html Ceon URI Mapping will indeed take over.

Obviously to avoid that you need to add the following exclusion to your rewrite rule:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/$

However, this means that you can't simply remove index.html to "switch the site live" as "/" would give a 404. You'd have to both remove the index.html file and remove the above exclusion.

Hope that clears things up!

All the best..

Conor
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