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We’re in the process of moving a site from a Media Temple (gs) to a vps.net server. The site is now working on the new server, but for some reason the .htaccess file is no longer removing the index.php, which means that links are broken.

mod_rewrite is installed on the server (see http://workisprogress.co.uk/info.php). 

I’m using the File and Directory Check method, with the following code in the .htaccess file:

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

Although I’ve also tried:

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

Any ideas what I’m doing wrong?

Thanks!

Do any htaccess rules work, even a simple test? Can you confirm that AllowOverride is set to All in your httpd.conf file?

Hi Jonathan Morgan,

I’ve got a couple of things for you to try in order for us to trouble shoot this. First of all, have you made sure that index.php has been removed from Admin-> General Configuration: Name of your site’s index page ? Have you run the Server Wizard on the new server to verify that it meets ExpressionEngine’s requirements? If you replace the last line in your example with this:

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

What are the results?

And lastly, can you post the entire contents of your .htaccess file, just incase there is something else at play here?

Thanks!

Im having the same problem, moving to a vps.net server and my lghtaccess generator isnt working, although the 301 redirects in my .htaccess are working, any ideas?

I found a solution for this, seems its a php upgrade issue. In your htaccess

Replace this:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php/$1 [L]

With this:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php?/$1 [L]

the only difference is the ? after index.php and now my vps.net site works without index.php

Hi illustrationdan,

Thanks for sharing your solution!

Cheers,