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Hi all,

I’m trying to remove index.php from an EE site that was build about a year ago, so there are 200+ pages that need 301 Redirect’s. I already have the list of 301’s, but for some reason it isn’t playing nicely with my RewriteRule. Here’s what I’ve got in my .htaccess

# Remove index.php
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond $1 !\.(gif|jpe?g|png)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php/$1 [L]

# 301 Redirect for 200+ pages
Redirect 301 /index.php/about/ <a href="http://website.com/about/">http://website.com/about/</a>
Redirect 301 /index.php/services/ <a href="http://website.com/services/">http://website.com/services/</a>
Redirect 301 /index.php/blog/ <a href="http://website.com/blog/">http://website.com/blog/</a>
Etc, etc etc…

And I get:

The page isn’t redirecting properly
Firefox has detected that the server is redirecting the request for this address in a way that will never complete.

Help!! Thanks in advance.

Cheers,
Brad

Unfortunately we don’t officially support server side rewriting like that. Let me move this to the CodeShare corner for you.

the problem here is that you’re trying to redirect http://website.com/index.php/about/ to http://website.com/about/ and then rewriting that back to http://website.com/index.php/about which redirects to http://website.com/about/ which… you get the point.

in order to break the chain, you need to rename your index.php file so that you can redirect index.php/about to /about and then rewrite that to whatever.php/about which serves the request.

@ender Thank you!! That makes perfect sense… all fixed! Cheers.