You do not necessarily need a redirect. A redirect does not get to the root of the problem. The problem is the links to the home page using index.php.

You just need to eliminate all links that contain index.php. All links to the home page throughout the site should be changed to <a href=”/”>Home</a> or <a href=”http://www.lenivica.in/>Home</a>. The first one is better to use if you are doing development work on your PC because it does not use a domain name and can be used on any development server.

If you want to do a redirect, you will want to do the opposite, which means you should redirect (2) to (1). The version without index.php should be your standard URL for the home page because that is the version used in all links to your site.

I’m using a tool to crawl my web pages. And the tool says I’ve duplicate pages. The duplicates are below:

1. http://www.lenvica.in/
2. http://www.lenvica.in/index.php

Is it necessary and possible to redirect (1) to (2)?

Thanks,
Biju.

Yes. The Google Webmaster Tools method is the workaround for sites who cannot use the .htaccess file, such as those that are on Microsoft servers.

If your site is on an Apache server, the method shown above is the correct way to standardize the URLs, because it works with all search engines and all the URLs in your site.