# Homepage doesn't have canonical URL

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**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:** ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)\
**Post date:** [21.Октябрь.2016 10:24:55 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/homepage-doesnt-have-canonical-url/50450/7 "2016-10-21T10:24:55Z")

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> [@michaeld](#):
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> when you change the hostname of the site and don’t want to redirect everything yet

This seems like such a bad idea, I’m not sure why anyone would want to encourage it?

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