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index.php as a parameter in the url of laravel website – SEO

I discovered that any laravel website is accessible with index.php as a parameter.

This is a big problem, index.php in url parameter breaks all images.
Look at a real example to understand what I mean:

http://www.cyprusalive.com/main-thing/sightseeing
http://www.cyprusalive.com/index.php/main-thing/sightseeing

Googlebot read some urls with index.php as a parameter of url. This has effect to breaks all images when someone get access to the website from google search with index.php.

Also, this is a bad seo practice because produce duplicate content.

What is the best way to fix that?

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    The problem could be fixed with nginx rewrite rules. Using the bellow rule redirect all urls with index.php parameter to the original laravel route url 

    location /index.php {
      rewrite ^/index.php(.*)$ http://$server_name$1;
}

    Also I've put the follow to the robots.txt

    Disallow: /*index.php*

  2. 0

    Do you have the .htaccess file provided with Laravel in your webroot or public folder?

    If not, try putting this in a .htaccess file in your public directory:

    <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    <IfModule mod_negotiation.c>
        Options -MultiViews
    </IfModule>

    RewriteEngine On

    # Redirect Trailing Slashes If Not A Folder...
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteRule ^(.*)/$ /$1 [L,R=301]

    # Handle Front Controller...
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteRule ^ index.php [L]

    # Handle Authorization Header
    RewriteCond %{HTTP:Authorization} .
    RewriteRule .* - [E=HTTP_AUTHORIZATION:%{HTTP:Authorization}]
</IfModule>

    Directly taken this .htaccess from Laravel GitHub.

    Also, you might need to check if the rewrite mod is enabled for your webserver.

    Reference How to check whether mod_rewrite is enable on server?

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  3. 0

    Since you’re using NGINX, check this

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  4. 0

    Also you can do this simply……

    1.Open apacheconfhttpd.conf and search for this line

    #LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so
    2.then remove [#] and save,then restart apache

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