Issue with index.php and forcing www

#1 / Jul 17, 2012 4:48pm

Danny Veiga

58 posts

I never had this issue come up until a client told me about it. For example, if you have a site that forces www via htaccess, and you have index.php being removed - when you go to a particular page (domain.com/about) via non-www method it’ll throw index.php in the loop.

Here’s what my htaccess looks like:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond $1 !\.(gif|jpe?g|png)$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php?/$1 [L]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ <a href="http://www.%{http_host}/$1">http://www.%{http_host}/$1</a> [R=301,L]

## EXPIRES CACHING ##
<IfModule mod_expires.c>
ExpiresActive On
ExpiresByType image/jpg "A2592000"
ExpiresByType image/jpeg "A2592000"
ExpiresByType image/gif "A2592000"
ExpiresByType image/png "A2592000"
ExpiresByType text/css "access 1 month"
ExpiresByType application/pdf "access 1 month"
ExpiresByType text/x-javascript "access 1 month"
ExpiresByType text/javascript "access 1 month"
ExpiresByType application/x-shockwave-flash "access 1 month"
ExpiresByType image/x-icon "A2592000"
ExpiresDefault "access 2 months"
</IfModule>
## EXPIRES CACHING ##

# gzip compression.
<IfModule mod_deflate.c>

# html, txt, css, js, json, xml, htc:
  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html text/plain text/css application/json
  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/javascript application/javascript application/x-javascript
  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/xml application/xml text/x-component

# webfonts and svg:
  <FilesMatch "\.(ttf|otf|eot|svg)$" >
    SetOutputFilter DEFLATE
  </FilesMatch>
</IfModule>

So again, when someone goes to http://www.domain.com/about everything works fine, but if they type domain.com/about it’ll load as domain.com/index.php?/about—- can’t figure how to remove index.php from the non forced www.

#2 / Jul 17, 2012 5:07pm

PressEnter Creative

235 posts

What happens if you have the force www rule first, as follows:

RewriteEngine On

#Force WWW
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ <a href="http://www.%{http_host}/$1">http://www.%{http_host}/$1</a> [R=301,L]

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

#3 / Jul 17, 2012 5:10pm

PressEnter Creative

235 posts

It just occurred to me that the problem might be that you don’t actually have a rule that will remove index.php from the request… you probably need something like this….

#Force WWW
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ <a href="http://www.%{http_host}/$1">http://www.%{http_host}/$1</a> [R=301,L]

# ---------------------------------------------------------------------
# Remove index.php from the URL
#
# In any request contains "index.php"  ...
# ... and is an Apache GET request ....
# ... and isn't in the EE system directory ... (assuming you still have a system folder that contains index.php)
# Then ...
# ... redirect to the requested location without "index.php"
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------

RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^GET.*index\.php [NC] 
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} !/system/.*
RewriteRule (.*?)index\.php/*(.*) $1$2 [R=301,L]

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

#4 / Jul 17, 2012 7:37pm

Danny Veiga
58 posts

Awesome, thanks for that last bit of htaccess code Nick - worked perfectly!

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