How to make a canonical link?

Question

Joomla

On the hosting, my site is set as an additional domain (www.site 1). During installation, add. domain, cPanel also creates a subdomain for it, in your case it is www.site 1/site 2.
www.site 1/site 2 - there should not be such a story, only www.site 1.
Site 2 is the main folder on the hosting.
Those. hosting support answered that it is correct to specify the canonical link? Joomla engine.

Answer 1

The engine has nothing to do with it, this issue is resolved at the level of the hosting control panel. How - depends on the hosting settings. Please clarify what you meant. support under the canonical link, since canonical links are a SEO concept that implies the use of a tag with rel="canonical" in the head of the page.

Answer 2

put 301 redirect in .htaccess