# Homepage doesn't have canonical URL

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/homepage-doesnt-have-canonical-url/50450>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [21.Сентябрь.2016 19:34:09 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/homepage-doesnt-have-canonical-url/50450 "2016-09-21T19:34:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![michaeld](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/michaeld/32/1594_2.png) [@michaeld](https://meta.discourse.org/u/michaeld)\
**Post date:** [21.Сентябрь.2016 19:34:09 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/homepage-doesnt-have-canonical-url/50450/1 "2016-09-21T19:34:09Z")

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Long story short: it seems like the homepage doesn’t have a canonical URL tag… ?

That’s relevant when you change the hostname of the site and don’t want to redirect everything yet,

and in order to avoid search index entries like [http://forum.domain.com?blahblahblah](http://forum.domain.com?blahblahblah) in case someone links to it that way.

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