htaccess strip "index_php?"

I would strip the htaccess code back to nothing first and then work from there. My guess is that it’s something on the server set up.

Follow the instructions here - https://docs.expressionengine.com/latest/installation/best-practices.html#removing-indexphp-from-your-urls and then once it’s working add the caching and redirects back in.

Here is one thing I tried with mixed result

RewriteRule (.?)index.php/(.*) /$1$2 [R=301,NE,L]

add [QSD] to RewriteRule

RewriteRule (.?)index.php/(.*) /$1$2 [R=301,NE,QSD,L]

This strips out the query string but alas it treats everything after the ? as query string. So..

https://www.trekalaska.com/index.php?/destinations/denali-state-park

becomes

https://www.trekalaska.com/

without the [QSD] it becomes

https://www.trekalaska.com/?/destinations/denali-state-park

query string disabled in CP

These links are old one that Google still checks so produces errors. Links with index.php not being generated by current site

Try this:

RewriteRule ^index.php$ %{QUERY_STRING} [R=301,NE,QSD,L]

This should match https://www.trekalaska.com/index.php?/destinations/denali-state-park

and return https://www.trekalaska.com/destinations/denali-state-park

Note that it will match ONLY index.php, not any sub-path, and also that if the query string has more fluff than just the EE segments, that’ll still be appended after the rewrite, which might not be what you want.

…I used this to help: https://htaccess.madewithlove.com/

OMG- that’s it!

Seems to be working perfectly. I have tried soooo many times to fix this. You are the first with a solution that works as intended.

Thanks for your help!

I spoke too soon :-(

https://www.trekalaska.com/index.php?/destinations/denali-state-park

returns

https://www.trekalaska.com/destinations/denali-state-park

which is perfect

However… https://www.trekalaska.com/index.php/destinations/denali-state-park

Returns https://www.trekalaska.com/index.php/destinations/denali-state-parks

and a 404 error

It strips out “index.php?” But not “index.php”

Also, a URL like https://www.trekalaska.com/?/destinations/denali-state-park

outputs no change and a 404

so am trying to strip out any of the following

“index.php” - “index.php?” - “?”

Have you removed index.php from Settings > URL and Path Settings

https://docs.expressionengine.com/latest/control-panel/settings/urls.html#website-index-page

Yes. That was removed in settings.

It’s getting rid of “index.php?” or “?” that is a problem

https://www.trekalaska.com/index.php?/alaska-hiking-trips/wrangell-st-elias-national-park

redirects to…

https://www.trekalaska.com/?/alaska-hiking-trips/wrangell-st-elias-national-park

Stripping “index.php?” from URLs To remove “index.php?” from your URLs using .htaccess, you can use the following code:

RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/index.php\?(.)$ RewriteRule ^index.php\?(.)$ /$1 [R=301,L]

This should redirect any URL containing “index.php?” to the clean version without it. geometry dash meltdown