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I am currently using your recommended solution for removing index.php from the URLs as follows:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
        RewriteEngine On

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

        # If 404s, "No Input File" or every URL returns the same thing
        # make it /index.php?/$1 above (add the question mark)
</IfModule>

This works as expected for the most part, and all URLs work perfectly without index.php attached. The issue is that visiting example.com/index.php/products does not “change” the URL automatically to example.com/products. Is there a solution? If it’s not something you can provide insight on, please move to Community Forums.

Hello JPDesignDev,

Thank you for posting your question here on the ExpressionEngine forums.

That is the expected behavior. I am sure you could force that, but anything else in the .htaccess to make that happen would fall outside of our supported changes to that file.

That being said, I will move this over to the Community Help Forum as requested. The community there may have some examples to show.

Cheers,

JPDesignDev, here’s what I use:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>

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

# Redirect www Requests
# ------------------------------
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>

First grouping removes www from all URLs to consolidate traffic to the non-www version of the URL - if that’s not something you want to do you can remove that block.

Note that with the redirect of index.php, you would need to add your system folder name to the second line so that it’s NOT removed when accessing the CP and only removed from the front end.

Hope this helps you.  It took me a while to get a handle on what i wanted to do with it.  This is cobbled together from a couple different sources who are much more htaccess literate than I am.

Somehow, I wasn’t subscribed to updates. Thanks for your answers, I will try it out, John!

No worries - hope it helps.