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I seem to having an issue with my htaccess and not sure what the proper solution is. Hoping someone here might have an answer.

When I enter “domain.ca/bob”, I want to be redirected to “www.domain.ca/bob”. Instead, I get “www.domain.ca/index.php/bob”. Not sure why the index.php gets chucked in. Do I have to add something extra to remove the index.php segment? I am already using the remove index.php code in the htaccess.

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

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

# Redirect for non-domain to www-domain
rewritecond %{HTTP_HOST} ^domain.ca
rewriterule ^(.*)$ <a href="http://www.domain.ca/$1">http://www.domain.ca/$1</a> [L,R=301]

# Other redirects below here

Thanks!

In the control panel, check in Admin > General Configuration > Name of your site’s index page - do you have index.php in there?

Ideally you’ll also have your htaccess file remove index.php even if it is present in the URL - so that you don’t have two URLs that display the same thing. Something like:

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

Hope that helps.

Hi John:

I double checked my general admin settings and I had removed the index.php properly. So not that.

I don’t really understand the htaccess code fluently. Do you mind taking a moment and describing what your additional code does on each line? How does it differ from what I am currently using?

Thanks for your help.