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I want to remove index.php completely from my URLs. I want my URLs to be something like http://www.domain.com/template-group/template/

The “Name of your site’s index page” is blank under general configuration in the Admin CP.

This is my .htaccess generated using this template yanked off the wiki.

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond $1 ^(member|index|about-us|party-boats|contact-us|faqs|styles|js|template-base|P[0-9]{2,8}) [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php/$1 [L]

When I go to “Templates” and check out the “styles” template group. I click on the view link. It points me to http://dev.beachfrontboats.com/index.php?styles/global.css/ - http://dev.beachfrontboats.com/?styles/global.css/ also works. But http://dev.beachfrontboats.com/styles/global.css does not.

Could Apache be ignoring my .htaccess file? I don’t have access to the logs to check.

Any ideas? Thanks.

*bump*

Anybody?

You need to make sure that the “Name of your site’s index page” in the control panel is set to “index.php” (or whatever the actual physical filename is), NOT blank.

If that doesn’t help, PM me and i’ll see what i can do for you.

@alienne

I’ve setup another install on a different server the exact same way without issues, leaving that field blank on the other install has worked fine.

Change:

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

To:

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

You’re correct that you should leave that field blank, otherwise EE will insert it into URLs that it creates.  Looks like your server requires query strings.

http://dev.beachfrontboats.com/index.php?/styles/global.css/
vs.
http://dev.beachfrontboats.com/index.php/styles/global.css/

KB Article

@Derek

Thanks, could I ask my host to set AcceptPathInfo on in my virtualhost config to resolve the issue?

Forcing the query string seems to be a temporary workaround.

Of course you could ask your host to support that Apache directive. 😉

Incidentally, it wouldn’t be a temporary workaround, it’s just a limitation of certain environments, and is how PHP applications have to run in those situations.  It’s less common, though, and certainly some base their hosting decisions around these details.

Oh, right. Sorry, Corey and Derek. I had a total brain fart there. :{