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Is there a way to prevent duplicate content issue with Google by removing index.php from URLs when Full Friendly URLs are enabled?

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Hi All,

I hope everyone is well. So I enabled Full Friendly URLs, but Google reports many duplicate content in Search Console.
For eg. https://mydomain.com and https://mydomain.com/index.php have the same content.
https://mydomain.com/login and https://mydomain.com/index.php/login and many others.

My question is, Is there a way to prevent the duplicate content issue with Google by removing index.php from URLs when Full Friendly URLs are enabled?

I must note that I have a hook file that helps make links canonical and is pasted below: 

<?php
if (!defined("WHMCS"))
    die("This file cannot be accessed directly");

add_hook('ClientAreaHeadOutput', 1, function($vars)
{

        $SystemURL = 'https://mydomain.com';
        $url = "https://$_SERVER[HTTP_HOST]$_SERVER[REQUEST_URI]";
        $url = strtok($url, '?');
    return <<<HTML
    <link rel="canonical" href="{$url}"/>
HTML;
});
Thank you.

Kind regards.
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On 8/2/2023 at 9:16 AM, Cool Deed said:

Hi All,

I hope everyone is well. So I enabled Full Friendly URLs, but Google reports many duplicate content in Search Console.
For eg. https://mydomain.com and https://mydomain.com/index.php have the same content.
https://mydomain.com/login and https://mydomain.com/index.php/login and many others.

My question is, Is there a way to prevent the duplicate content issue with Google by removing index.php from URLs when Full Friendly URLs are enabled?

I must note that I have a hook file that helps make links canonical and is pasted below: 

<?php
if (!defined("WHMCS"))
    die("This file cannot be accessed directly");

add_hook('ClientAreaHeadOutput', 1, function($vars)
{

        $SystemURL = 'https://mydomain.com';
        $url = "https://$_SERVER[HTTP_HOST]$_SERVER[REQUEST_URI]";
        $url = strtok($url, '?');
    return <<<HTML
    <link rel="canonical" href="{$url}"/>
HTML;
});
Thank you.

Kind regards.

Any news on this matter?

I have duplicate urls on a multilanguage site.

Whmcs still does not officially provide a solution to this issue (I have consulted with them).

Has anyone had luck with this?

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arnoldmatt Junior Member

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Removing index.php should definitely fix the duplicates.  Your hook looks like a good start, but have you tried checking the WHMCS documentation for their official method on enabling clean URLs?  They might have a built-in solution.

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