[wp-hackers] canonical not enforced

[Dion Hulse (dd32)]

The Canonical redirects don't kick in if it's just the homepage, this
has been done to prevent infinite loops with some configs which are
set to make the homepage with/without the www., and WordPress
attempting to redirect to the other form..

There are plugins i'm sure to redirect the home page, I have run a
custom plugin in the past to achieve it as well.

On 3 March 2012 03:42, Kevin Newman <CaptainN at unfocus.com> wrote:
> But the strange thing is that it does handle that for another situation.
>
> http://unfocus.com/?p=4116 does redirect to the permalink (and to
> www.unfocus.com, which is the canonical).
>
> Even the not shortened url will redirect if the domain is not canonical:
> http://unfocus.com/2011/12/05/fast-as3-signals-with-signalslite/
>
> It just doesn't redirect from unfoc.us based urls.
>
> Anyway, we'll probably hack it somewhere to do the redirect.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Kevin
>
>
>
>
> On 3/2/12 11:24 AM, Nathaniel Taintor wrote:
>>
>> "Canonical" links are a different thing from url redirection, and they're
>> not meant to be used for that. The purpose of the canonical links is to
>> inform search engine who find the pagehttp://unfoc.us/?p=4116  that it
>> should be indexed ashttp://unfocus.com/?p=4116  , and that the two URLs
>>
>> refer to the same content.
>>
>> WordPress's permalinks are based off of the "Site URL" option which is set
>> in "Settings>  General", and since you have that option set to
>> http://unfocus.com/,<http://unfocus.com/?p=4116>  you can see that even if
>> you browse to the site through the unfoc.us domain, any of the links on
>> the
>> site will resolve to unfocus.com links.
>>
>> If you want visitors reaching the site through unfoc.us to automatically
>> be
>> redirected to the corresponding url under unfocus.com, you will have to
>> add
>> this as a rule in your .htaccess - its not something WordPress handles by
>> default.
>>
>> Hope this helps,
>> Nathaniel Taintor
>
>
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