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Is there a way to use pages to display a page based on the url rather than /index.php/*.

For example,  http://www.example.com/blog rather than http://www.example.com/index.php/blog, it seems http://www.expressionengine.com does this.

While it’s not officially supported, many folks do it via htaccess- see this wiki entry on how to do it.  Note however- it may vary a bit depending on your server setup.

But ExpressionEngine.com does it right?  Is that done via htaccess?

We have a lot of pages we already have indexed and linked, and I don’t want to loose those links.  But then again, I don’t want to have to have a htaccess file with lots of rewrites as it would be needless overhead.

It’s pretty much the standard way to remove it.  But- it’s easy to do- as long as it works.  At most, you just have to list what folders you DON’T want rewritten- or which template group names you DO want rewritten.  In other words?  Once you set it up, you hardly ever have to change it.  It’s not a ‘per url’ type thing.

And there’s one method you don’t have to specify anything- though it’s a bit more server intensive.