How can we determine if user has navigated to the default page directly?

Asked Mar 15 '19 at 18:03

Active Mar 16 '19 at 20:07

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We know that we can find our scripts and parametres by using php's $_SERVER[REQUEST_URI].

My problem with this is that querying the default script (page) with $_SERVER[REQUEST_URI] will always return the full script. Both https://www.apple.com/index.html and https://www.apple.com/ will return index.html.

If a user has landed on the default page (https://www.apple.com/), then is there a way that we may query the URI and have either / or (NULL) returned?

(As a background to this question, what I am ultimately trying to do is clean up indexing duplicate errors from Google, specifically.)

Server model is LAMP (CentOS 6), if this helps.

edited Mar 16 '19 at 20:07

asked Mar 15 '19 at 18:03

Parapluie

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You could do this with .htaccess and mod-rewrite. It's not something I'd handle with PHP – Jay Blanchard Mar 15 '19 at 18:05
Working on raw $_SERVER is very unclear. You should definitely give a try to https://symfony.com/doc/current/components/http_foundation.html :) – Damian Dziaduch Mar 15 '19 at 18:45
@JayBlanchard What I am reading from your comment is: "…something that we **can't do with php.**" Sadly, I suspected this as well. Do you have any thoughts on an `.htaccess` solution? – Parapluie Mar 16 '19 at 20:06
Added mod-rewrite-related tags. – Parapluie Mar 16 '19 at 20:07

How can we determine if user has navigated to the default page directly?

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