My htaccess code removes “index.php” from urls but it’s supposed to strip out “index.php?”

it leaves the ? which produces a 404 error. htaccess coding is way beyond me

here is my code:

RewriteOptions inherit DirectoryIndex index.php index.html

#

Redirects

#

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Caching

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Header unset Pragma FileETag None Header unset ETag

1 Year

<FilesMatch “.(jpg|jpeg|png|gif|swf|flv|ico)$”> Header set Cache-Control “max-age=31556926, public” </FilesMatch>

1 Month

<FilesMatch “.(js|css)$”> Header set Cache-Control “max-age=2629743, public” </FilesMatch>

1 Week

<FilesMatch “.(html|htm|txt|php)$”> Header set Cache-Control “max-age=604800, public” </FilesMatch>

#

Compression

#

<IfModule mod_deflate.c> AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html text/xml text/css text/plain AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE image/svg+xml application/xhtml+xml application/xml AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/rdf+xml application/rss+xml application/atom+xml AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/javascript application/javascript application/x-javascript AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-font-ttf application/x-font-otf AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE font/truetype font/opentype </IfModule>

<IfModule mod_security.c> SecFilterEngine Off SecFilterScanPOST Off </IfModule>

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c> RewriteEngine On RewriteBase /

# Removes index.php from ExpressionEngine URLs
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^GET.*index\.php [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/system/.* [NC]
RewriteRule (.*?)index\.php/*(.*) /$1$2 [R=301,NE,L]

# Directs all EE web requests through the site index file
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php/$1 [L]

</IfModule>

Enable Compression

<IfModule mod_deflate.c> AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/javascript AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/rss+xml AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/vnd.ms-fontobject AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-font AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-font-opentype AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-font-otf AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-font-truetype AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-font-ttf AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-javascript AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/xhtml+xml AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/xml AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE font/opentype AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE font/otf AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE font/ttf AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE image/svg+xml AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE image/x-icon AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/css AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/javascript AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/plain </IfModule> <IfModule mod_gzip.c> mod_gzip_on Yes mod_gzip_dechunk Yes mod_gzip_item_include file .(html?|txt|css|js|php|pl)$ mod_gzip_item_include handler ^cgi-script$ mod_gzip_item_include mime ^text/.* mod_gzip_item_include mime ^application/x-javascript.* mod_gzip_item_exclude mime ^image/.* mod_gzip_item_exclude rspheader ^Content-Encoding:.gzip. </IfModule>

Leverage Browser Caching

<IfModule mod_expires.c> ExpiresActive On ExpiresByType image/jpg “access 1 year” ExpiresByType image/jpeg “access 1 year” ExpiresByType image/gif “access 1 year” ExpiresByType image/png “access 1 year” ExpiresByType text/css “access 1 month” ExpiresByType text/html “access 1 month” ExpiresByType application/pdf “access 1 month” ExpiresByType text/x-javascript “access 1 month” ExpiresByType application/x-shockwave-flash “access 1 month” ExpiresByType image/x-icon “access 1 year” ExpiresDefault “access 1 month” </IfModule> <IfModule mod_headers.c> <filesmatch “.(ico|flv|jpg|jpeg|png|gif|css|swf)$”> Header set Cache-Control “max-age=2678400, public” </filesmatch> <filesmatch “.(html|htm)$”> Header set Cache-Control “max-age=7200, private, must-revalidate” </filesmatch> <filesmatch “.(pdf)$”> Header set Cache-Control “max-age=86400, public” </filesmatch> <filesmatch “.(js)$”> Header set Cache-Control “max-age=2678400, private” </filesmatch> </IfModule>

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^trekalaska.com [NC]

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://www.trekalaska.com/$1 [L,R=301]

Permanent URL redirect - generated by www.rapidtables.com

Permanent URL redirect - generated by www.rapidtables.com

Redirect 301 /trips/alaska-wrangell-skyscraper.html https://www.trekalaska.com/alaska-hiking-backpacking-trips/wrangell-skyscraper-traverse Redirect 301 /alaska-hiking-backpacking-trips/seven-pass-route-iceberg-lake-to-bremner https://www.trekalaska.com/alaska-hiking-backpacking-trips/seven-pass-route-iceberg-to-bremner Redirect 301 /index.php?/trips/alaska-wrangell-skyscraper.html https://www.trekalaska.com/alaska-hiking-backpacking-trips/wrangell-skyscraper-traverse Redirect 301 /alaskas-wrangell-st.-elias-national-park/kennicott-alaska https://www.trekalaska.com/wrangell-st-elias-national-park/kennicott-alaska Redirect 301 /index.html https://www.trekalaska.com

php – BEGIN cPanel-generated handler, do not edit

Set the “ea-php80” package as the default “PHP” programming language.

<IfModule mime_module> AddHandler application/x-httpd-ea-php80___lsphp .php .php8 .phtml </IfModule> RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^.*$ RewriteRule ^alaska-hiking-backpacking-trips\/seven-pass-route-iceberg-lake-to-bremner$ “https:\/\/www.trekalaska.com\/alaska-hiking-backpacking-trips\/seven-pass-route-iceberg-to-bremner” [R=301,L]