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Greetings,

I am trying to remove the index.php from my site’s url, but continuously running into a ‘404-not found’ error message. The website is http://www.allsidesofthestory.com/

I’ll outline my steps below:

Running:
• EE Freelancer v2.1.3 Build: 20110411
• Dreamhost Virtual Private Server running Lighttpd
• Removed index.php from General Configuration
• Set Enable Strict URLs to ‘NO’
• Followed instructions in this EE Forum thread
• Here are two pages I also referenced: DH Lighttpd,  Lighttpd URL Rewrites
• I’ve attached my lighttpd configuration as a txt file to this post

Please let me know if there is any further information I should add, and, thank you in advance!

Hi Brian,

Removal of index.php is only officially supported on Apache 2.x or later, and ExpressionEngine 2.2+. I’ll move this over to Community Help for you. Thanks!

Hi Brandon,

The issue was solved by adding the following lines to the lighttpd.config file, using shell commands:

url.rewrite-once = (
  “^/(login|system|themes|images|admin)(.*)” => “/$1$2”,
  “^/(.*)$” => “/index.php/$1”
)

Save, then restart lighttpd. Your URLS will be clean!