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Hello,
As the title suggests we have an issue with index.php refusing to be omitted form the live URLs. We’re using the standard EE HTaccess rewrite code. Another possibly related issue is that our search isn’t working on the live site either!

I’ve pulled a copy of the live site down along with the database, set it up locally again and both the index.php issue AND the search just immediately began working as expected.

I’ve tried the options outlined in the following thread http://ellislab.com/forums/viewthread/194165/#915531 but it didn’t work for me.

Assistance with this would be greatly appreciated.

Many thanks

Martin

Hi, Martin.

Do you possibly need this part of the code?

# If 404s, "No Input File" or every URL returns the same thing
        # make it /index.php?/$1 above (add the question mark)

You didn’t mention who you were hosted with. Can we have you try the Server Wizard
Anything not supported?

Hi Sue,
We’re hosted with Layershift in the UK http://uk.layershift.com on a Linux server.

I’ve run the server wizard and it passes on all counts.

Not sure what you mean by the code? I tried un-commenting but it just errored.

Our URL is http://www.convatecstomacare.co.uk.  Manually removing the index.php from the URL in the browser still loads the page fine?

Thanks

Martin

Hi Martin,

Can you give the following a try on your live server and let us know how it goes:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
        RewriteEngine On

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

        # If 404s, "No Input File" or every URL returns the same thing
        # make it /index.php?/$1 above (add the question mark)
</IfModule>

Please note this line:

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php?/$1 [L]

That is the line where the “?” should be added (note that I have added it in the example). After making these changes, let us know if you still have these issues.

Thanks!

Hi Dan,
Your supplied code didn’t solve the issue.

I’ll PM access to the admin if that helps?
*** DAN, YOUR MESSAGE BOX IS FULL ***

Many thanks

Martin

**** FIXED *****

We’re using HTML5 Boilerplate as our jump-off.  It seems we had a conflict in the .htaccess with the default EE index.php removal script.

Thanks for your help!

Martin

Hi Martin!

Glad to hear you are all set!

Just FYI, most EllisLab staff have PMs disabled to protect Community members from insecurely supplying sensitive information.

If you ever need assistance in the future, let us know in a new thread. We’ll be here!

Cheers!