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Hi

I have installed EE on HostGator and they are linux based.

I followed the instructions in the user guide to remove index.php from the urls but it doesn’t work. I am guessing this is because it is a linux server. mod_rewrite is turned on on the server.

How can I remove index.php when working on a linux server.

Cheers
Gabe

The AllowOverride tag in the apache config file for your website is probably set to “None”, it needs to be set to “All”. This would prevent the .htaccess file in the User Guide from taking effect.

Here is mine for a reference, you’d have to check with your host to see if you have access to change it. The apache web server would have to be restarted for the changes to take effect I think.

<VirtualHost *:80>
      DocumentRoot /var/www
      <Directory />
          Options FollowSymLinks
          AllowOverride All
      </Directory>
      <Directory /var/www>
          Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
          AllowOverride All
          Order allow,deny
          allow from all
      </Directory>

... rest removed for space ...

</VirtualHost>

Hey GabbaTheHutt,

Patrick is right! Removal of index.php is really straight forward on Linux.

Is there anything else I can help you with?

Cheers,