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I have a website that has been online for a couple of months and I have just recently switched to a host that will allow a .htaccess file so now I’m prepared to remove the index.php from the url. My question (and not being very experienced w/ htaccess) is this: Will past links that may have included the index.php in the url still go to their links within the site?

mysite.com/index.php/portfolio/

will be the same as:

mysite.com/portfolio/

and the index.php still exists but is not what is displayed in the url?

Just need some clarification, any help is appreciated.

If you setup your htaccess correctly your old links will forward (301 permanent) to their non index.php equivalent, nothing will break. It will take search engines a bit of time to pick up and reflect the changes but you won’t loose any traffic or drop from indexes. The index.php will still be there on the backend but hidden, you are correct.

Thank you. I was hoping that was the case. And thank you for the quick reply.

Thank you. I was hoping that was the case. And thank you for the quick reply.