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Hello—

I followed the steps on removing index.php. I’ve had no problems doing this in the past, but I’m on a server that is not hosted by a provider that I am familiar with and I’m having some issues.

I followed both methods of the ReWrite Rule (forced and unforced query strings), but when I remove index.php I still get a 404.

Any ideas of anything else that could be causing this issue? I’m not on a sub-domain.

Sincerely,

Stumped!

Thanks!

Lisa

Hi Lisa,

Which version of EE are you using?

Can you post your entire htaccess content here so we can have a look?

Thank you,

Mike

EE 2.5.2

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
        RewriteEngine On

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

Hi Lisa,

Try changing the last rewrite rule to the following:

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

Let me know if that works.

Thank you,

Mike

Did not work.
The interesting thing is I can leave the htaccess file edited and up and if i put index.php back into EE, it doesn’t seem to effect at all.

Does the site work if you don’t remove index.php?

Mike

yep

Did you by any chance remove the index.php from “Admin > General Configuration > Name of your site’s index page”? You should also clear your EE cache just to make sure there is nothing being cached.

Yes…no luck :(

The only other thing I can think of is your htaccess is disabled. Can you check with your hosting company to make sure that you can use htaccess files?

Mike

That was the issue. ALl good now. Thanks for the help, Mike!

No problem. I’m glad you got it sorted out :D

Mike

Hi Lisa!

Nice to see that you and Mike were able to sort it out!

If we can do anything else, please let us know.

Cheers,