Remove index.php after redirect???

Admin > System Preferences > General Configuration, check the setting called “Name of your site’s index page”. It probably says “index.php”, you need to clear it out and save.

@Lab Technician, you are so correct that fixed my issue.

I have found another solution, but not so clean

{if segment_1 == ''}
header("location:http://www.mydomain.com/news");  exit;
{/if}

tx for your solution

glad it helped 😊

for whatever it’s worth “Lab Technician” (or Summer Student, etc.) is the rather silly rank given to each member for having posted a certain number of times on these forums. The member’s username is just above that line in blue (mine is “ender”, yours is “123ee”). 😉