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Hi all

The official method for removing index.php from urls (here) is working great for me except for one small problem: the home page is still accessible with index.php included in the URL. I.e.: http://www.vossbrook.co.uk/ shows the same content as http://www.vossbrook.co.uk/index.php

Without getting into a discussion on SEO and duplicate content, I’m looking for a way using .htaccess of 301 redirecting the url containing index.php to it’s equivalent without index.php. I.e. http://www.vossbrook.co.uk/index.php 301 redirects to http://www.vossbrook.co.uk/. I’m not an expert in .htaccess and everything I’ve tried so far has simply broken the existing URL rewrites.

If anyone has a solution to what I’m trying to do I’d really appreciate hearing about it.

Thanks!

Martin

Hi Martin,

I’m afraid we can only provide a limited scope of support when it comes to .htaccess rules, but I’d be more than happy to move this thread over to the Development and Programming or Community Help forum so that other developers can provide some help. Would you like me to do that?

Hi Kevin

Thanks for the reply, yes please do move it over. Sounds like it should have been posted in a different Forum from the beginning as it was really aimed at the wider EE community rather than specifically for you guys.

Sure thing, Martin!

Hi martinj,
I think the solution is here: http://kevinthompson.info/blog/completely-remove-index-php-from-expressionengine-urls/

The code is:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>

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

# 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>

For me this worked.
Good luck.