Remove /home url from sitemap and url site structure

Question

Remarkably simple problem I have that I'm not finding a simple solution for.

Essentially I have a duplicate url issue with a Magento site's home page.

I have in the url structure the below:

www.domain.com

but also:

www.domain.com/home

Which essentially point to the same page.

I want to remove the latter url which has /home at the end.

I can't simply disable the CMS page that is the home page, as the home page then loads without the home page content in there.

All I want to do is essentially remove the /home from my sitemap generation and from Google's search index.

I still need the main url www.domain.com to index and be found though.

I'm finding that Google is not indexing my main url properly because of the duplication.

I would have thought there would be a basic setting in Magento admin to prevent this? Thanks for any help as always.

Answer 1

How to remove home identifier from the homepage url inside the generated sitemap.

(Tested on CE 1.9.3.4)

• Before: <loc>http://www.example.com/home</loc>

• After: <loc>http://www.example.com/</loc>

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Copy your Sitemap.php from:

app/code/core/Mage/Sitemap/Model/Sitemap.php

to:

app/code/local/Mage/Sitemap/Model/Sitemap.php

Look for:

foreach ($collection as $item) {

and REPLACE IT with:

$pages = new Varien_Object();
$pages->setItems($collection);
Mage::dispatchEvent('sitemap_cms_pages_generating_before', array(
    'collection' => $pages,
    'store_id' => $storeId
));
foreach ($pages->getItems() as $item) {

then copy Page.php file from:

app/code/core/Mage/Sitemap/Model/Resource/Cms/Page.php

to:

app/code/local/Mage/Sitemap/Model/Resource/Cms/Page.php

and open this too. Look for:

$page = $this->_prepareObject($row);

and REPLACE IT with:

if ($row['url'] == 'home') {
    $row['url'] = '';
}
$page = $this->_prepareObject($row);

Go to the backend, generate a brand new sitemap and Bob's your uncle! :D

Answer 2

Move

\app\code\core\Mage\Sitemap\Model\Sitemap.php

to

\app\code\local\Mage\Sitemap\Model\Sitemap.php

Then try adding this code near line 202:

if ($item->getUrl() == 'home/') continue;

It should look similar to this:

...
foreach ($collection as $item) {
        if ($item->getUrl() == 'home/') continue;
        $xml = sprintf(
...