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I am trying to use the .htaccess file to remove the index.php from the domain. I have the following in the file and it works fine.

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

However I am also trying to forward anyone who reaches the site at https://domain.com to forward them to https://www.domain.com. I have the following in place, but I am having some issues with it.

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\..+$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} (.+)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ <a href="http://www.%1/$1">http://www.%1/$1</a> [R=301,L]
</IfModule>

For the most part it is working. The only issue is when navigating to a sub page the index.php gets added. Example navigating to https://domain.com/sub sends you to https://www.domain.com/index.php?/sub.

The page still works fine, only now it’s even uglier. I am not super familiar with the Rewrite stuff so any help would be appreciated. I am using the HTML5 Boilerplate if anyone is familiar with that.

thanks

yankeyhotel,

Unfortunately, we are only able to support .htaccess as outlined here. However, I will move this into Community Help and perhaps those with better knowledge of more advance rewrite rules can offer some advice.

Cheers,

sounds good, thought that might be the case.

everyone thanks for the help!

Hi yankeyhotel,

I tend to put this before the EE rewrite rules:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^domain.tld$
RewriteRule (.*) <a href="http://www.domain.tld/$1">http://www.domain.tld/$1</a> [R=301,L]

Customise the “domain.tld” to your domain, and that has always worked for me.

Cheers,
John

yankeyhotel,

try this in your .htaccess file:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.DOMAINNAME\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ <a href="http://www.domainname.com/$1">http://www.domainname.com/$1</a> [R=301,L]

Is the HTTPS redirect below the EE redirect instructions? Looks like it’s doing the EE rewrite first and then doing the 301. Try reversing the order?

I love this community! Thanks everyone for the help everything seems to be working. I think it was the reordering that did it!