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I have moved my dev site to engine hosting and wish to remove index.php.  My htacess contents read as below. The problem is that index.php is not being removedfrom the url.

<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>

Go in to admin > general config > Name of your site’s index page and remove index.php

Thank you I have already done that

Hello Jack,

You should edit the RewriteRule to take *out* the “?”

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

If you make that change, does it behave properly?

Also, make sure you check off all the items outlined in Moving ExpressionEngine to Another Server.

Cheers,

Thank you, this worked for me on engine hosting:

<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>

I’m not sure if I should make a new topic. but I can’t get this to work either.
I’m on localhost though.

I’ve followed all of the steps in the guide and when I get a “Not Found” when I go to the URL without the index.php

Hi btko,

What server environment are you running on your localhost?

If you have apache, you need to make sure that overrides are allowed, or .htaccess directives won’t have an effect.

Feel free to share your .htaccess directives here and we can give them a look over as well.

Cheers,

Hi thanks for the reply,

I have apache, mysql, php server running on localhost.
I’ve been trying to follow tutorials on allowing overides, but they don’t seem to work.
Well… I’m likely not following them correctly.

Here is my .htaccess file:

<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>

Hi btko,

That’s the proper .htaccess, so it must boil down to whether apache is configured to allow overrides.

What OS are you using? Are you running the services separately, or in a package like MAMP?

I might still be able to help get this sorted out.

Cheers,

Thanks for the reply, and sorry it seems like I have a couple threads going on this same issue :o

I’m running the services separately and I’ve been trying to gonfigure the overrides but I’m at a stand still
at the moment.

Hi btko,

Indeed, having the threads split can be a bit confusing 😉

I provided some info in the other thread that may have proven useful.

For clarity and sanity, I’m going to resolve this one and we will focus in on the other one.

If anyone else here has other issues that need attention, please feel free to start another thread!

Cheers,