Configuring .htaccess

#1 / Jun 20, 2011 8:45am
kscot
91 posts
I’m looking for some help in writing an .htaccess file. In addition to removing “index.php” from the URL on the front-end, for SEO purposes I’d also like to:

1. Remove “www” so all pages are served as “http://mydomain.com”
2. Remove trailing slashes

The following code seems to work OK for me:
```
RewriteEngine on

RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !=on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.(.+)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://%1/$1 [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^(.+)/$
RewriteRule ^(.*)/$ /$1 [L,R=301]
RewriteCond $1 !^(images|system|favicon\.ico|robots\.txt|sitemap\.xml|index\.php|index\.htm) [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php/$1 [L]
```
However, I can’t access the control panel without including “index.php” in the URL, and links to thumbnail images in the control panel aren’t working. If anyone has a better, more efficient way of writing the .htaccess file to accomplish the above-stated goals I’d appreciate any suggestions.

#2 / Jun 20, 2011 11:45am

PressEnter Creative

235 posts

Kevin Thompson’s Blog has an excellent post on this topic. We use it, along with a few other tweaks, on all of our EE sites.

# Redirect index.php Requests
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^GET.*index\.php [NC]
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} !/your-ee-system-dir-goes-here/.*
RewriteRule (.*?)index\.php/*(.*) /$1$2 [R=301,L]

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

#3 / Jun 20, 2011 4:58pm

Sue Crocker
26054 posts

Thanks for the assist, Nick!

kscot - will that .htaccess work for you?

#4 / Jun 22, 2011 6:24pm

kscot

91 posts

Nick,

That wasn’t exactly what I was looking for but a good head’s up nonetheless. Had a gander at the post you referred to and have added that bit to my default .htaccess file.

My original problem was I kept getting an error when I would attempt to navigate to the control panel when I tried to strip the trailing slash from the URL. I noticed that I don’t have any trouble when I instead always add trailing slashes. So that’s what I’ve decided to do. Here’s what my default .htaccess for EE installs now looks like:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>

# Enable Rewrite Engine
# ------------------------------
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

# Add trailing slash to all urls
# ------------------------------
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^(.+)/$
RewriteRule ^(.+)/$  /$1 [R=301,L]  

# Remove www from url
# ------------------------------
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.(.+)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://%1/$1 [R=301,L]

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

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

</IfModule>

My main motivation is for removing “www” and always adding the trailing slash is SEO.

#5 / Jun 23, 2011 2:52pm

Sue Crocker
26054 posts

Glad that .htaccess works for you. If anything else comes up, please do let us know in a new thread..

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