Magento 301 redirect home url to root

It’s always good practice to keep a close eye on your Google Analytics and Webmaster accounts, monitoring site errors, duplicate content issues and possible improvements to your search engine ranking.

Magento /home url

One easy fix for a standard CE Magento install is to remove the /home URL. After setting up Magento you’ll notice that http://www.yoursite.com/home also shows your homepage, so having that indexed as well as your homepage is likely to weaken your SEO standing.

Magento 301 redirect

The best solution is to permanently redirect it to your real homepage.

Magent0 1

In the admin panel go to;

Catalogue -> URL Rewrite Management.

Click the Add URL Rewrite Button and Select;

Type: Custom
ID Path: home
Request Path :home
Target Path: ../

Entering http://www.yoursite.com/home in the address bar, should now take you back to your site’s homepage (root).

Magent0 2

In the admin panel go to;

Marketing-> URL Rewrites

Click the Add URL Rewrite Button and Select;

Create URL Rewrite: Custom
Request Path : home
Target Path: ../
Redirect Type : Permanent 301

Entering http://www.yoursite.com/home in the address bar, should now take you back to your site’s homepage (root).