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I know this is a bit of a weird request because usually you try to get rid of index.php but we cannot and I have the need to add in index.php if it isn’t present so that the link will still function.

Make sense? I hope so.

Thanks!

Take any request…
... that doesn’t contain .css/js/jpg/png
... that doesn’t already contain index.php
... that isn’t a file
... that isn’t a directory
... and redirect to /index.php/[original request]

RewriteCond $1 !\.(css|js|gif|jpe?g|png) [NC]
RewriteCond $1 !index\.php [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php/$1 [R=301,L]

That’ll require a bit of testing to make sure it doesn’t break things, but, it should do the trick, or at least get you started…

Edit: the RewriteCond $1 !index\.php [NC] line might be redundant; not sure if the !-f rule would catch that or not…

Thanks for the quick reply! However I put this in my .htaccess file that is located at the root of the site and it does not work…

example:

http://www.cartegraph.com/solutions

should redirect to

http://www.cartegraph.com/index.php/solutions/

any ideas as to why it wouldn’t work?

Thanks!

Edit: I am extremely unfamiliar with .htaccess. Is there a good place online to get familiar with it?

Thanks!

It wouldn’t work if /solutions is actually a directory on your server.

Make sure you’ve got this near the top of your file too:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /

I devoted a morning to getting a better handle on .htaccess earlier this month and was glad that I did.  There were a few useful htaccess tips here, and this .htaccess cheat sheet was also cool.  I printed out a couple of examples and worked through them with a pen and made notes to figure out what they were actually doing.

If you post the contents of your file I might be able to help.

Awesome! Thanks for the links… seems i was missing the important part.

RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /

Thanks again!

Lucas JD

Thanks for the assist, Nick.

Lucas - If anything else comes up, please do let us know in a new thread..