Remove index.php from google search URL

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I want to be able to remove index.php URL from google's search listing, you may be able to see this when searching the website title (with or without a space between). On the second page for me it shows my website however the URL has index.php on the end!

I have edited the httpd.conf to remove index.php from the end of my URL, below you can see what I have:

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName joemethven.com
    DocumentRoot /var/www/html/joemethven/
</VirtualHost>

Options -MultiViews

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f

RewriteRule ^([^\.]+)$ $1.php [NC,L]
RewriteRule ^([^\.]+)$ $1.html [NC,L]

Why is Google picking up index.php when the website loads with joemethven.com? Is there a way I can prevent this?!

Thanks for reading, hope someone can help! :)

Update: I just quickly added a .htaccess within the folder of my website with the below information:

Options -MultiViews
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d 

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}\.html -f 
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1.html

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}\.php -f 
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1.php

I don't know if this will make any changes, however my other servers running websites without this issue had this information in their .htaccess file.

Joe Methven · Accepted Answer · 2015-05-16 23:20:47Z

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The fix was easier than I thought, simply going to Google's webmaster tools I used the "Submit to Index" function and set my preferred URL without index.php and it's changed over for me!

answered May 16, 2015 at 23:20

Joe Methven

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