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Hi Guys,

Just trying to remove index.php from the sites URLs but running into issues. Haven’t work with .htaccess files before so a little unsure.

Have created the following .htaccess file and placed it in the root

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond $1 ^(group-name|P[0-9]{2,8}) [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php/$1 [L]

I changed General config > Perferences > Name of your site’s index page to blank.

When I try to access http://www.nameofsite/group-name/, I get a 404 error. When I try http://www.nameofsite/index.php/group-name/, it works fine.

I also tried

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

but no luck either.

Any help really appreciated, assume I am missing something simple here.

Tks

[Mod Edit: Moved to the Community Help forum]

Hi aidan1234,

I’m afraid that removing index.php with .htaccess isn’t something that we can officially support so I’ve moved this thread to the Community Help forum. However, try this instead:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/$1 [QSA,L]

What this says is “if the request is not for a directory or a file then send the request to the front controller index.php file”. You may have to add a question mark right after index.php (as in your rewrite rule above) depending upon your server configuration.

Cheers

Greg

Thanks Greg. This fixes a problem I had with the htaccess code I was using. The problem was that the GET URLS used by EE such as ‘mysite/?ACT=69’ were breaking.