Hmmm, does the default system not have "/" work as home? E.g. silverstripe.com and demo.silverstripe.com both dont redirect to /home automatically

Sigurd: I am referring to the /home menu link, which redirects to the root, not the other way round.
http://demo.silverstripe.com/home/

It seems I spoke too soon, /home does a 302 to /, which is not too bad for SEO, however being able to set the link for "home" to "/" would be better, IMHO!

-RC-

Hello RC, Sigrud,

I have also noticed this in one of our newly developed Silverstripe site.

The www.mysite.com/home does a 302 (temporary) redirect to www.mysite.com/ - the problem is that Google now has problem indexing the www.mysite.com as in the automatically generated sitemap it lists www.mysite.com/home. When Google spiders the /home it sees the 302 redirect and the Googlebot. Google's flag below:

URLs not followed
When we tested a sample of the URLs from your Sitemap, we found that some URLs were not accessible to Googlebot because they contained too many redirects. Please change the URLs in your Sitemap that redirect and replace them with the destination URL (the redirect target). All valid URLs will still be submitted.

Now, is there a way to edit the auto generated sitemap ( i mean change the /home to /?)

Has anyone experienced this or found a permanent fix? It is rather concerning that Google does not index the homepage of a site!!!

Thank you very much for any help you can provide,

fabie

A simple solution:

open up sapphire/misc/googlesitemap.php and around line 33/34 include:

if($page->AbsoluteLink() == Director::absoluteBaseURL()."home/")
{
   $page->PageLink = Director::absoluteBaseURL();
}
else
{
   $page->PageLink = $page->AbsoluteLink();
}

Then in sapphire/templates/GoogleSiteMap.ss

replace

<loc>$AbsoluteLink</loc>

with

<loc>$PageLink</loc>