htaccess - remove "index.php" from URL and redirect

Question

At my website, I was using URL addresses such as

http://me.example.com/index.php?p=home

Then I decided to use

http://me.example.com/?p=home

It all worked automatically without any ".htaccess" file. But addresses which contain "index.php" also still work. Some sites have links to my site in "old" format. I want people to stop using this "old" format and redirect them to the "new" format URL, whenever they use "old" format. All I want to do is to remove "index.php" from URL and also change this URL in visitor's browser.

Possible duplicate: stackoverflow.com/questions/9764828/…

clmarquart
– clmarquart

2012-04-04 13:23:33 +00:00
Commented Apr 4, 2012 at 13:23 — clmarquart
– clmarquart, Commented Apr 4, 2012 at 13:23

anubhava · Accepted Answer · 2012-04-04 15:55:45Z

5

Here is the code that will go in .htaccess under DOCUMENT_ROOT:

Options +FollowSymLinks -MultiViews
# Turn mod_rewrite on
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

RewriteRule ^index\.php/?$ / [L,R=301,NC]

answered Apr 4, 2012 at 15:55

anubhava

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2 Comments

BenJamin Over a year ago

how would one preserve an url path and still do this? eg example.com/folder/index.php => example.com/foler/

BenJamin Over a year ago

figured it out: RewriteRule ^(.*)?index\.php/?$ /$1 [L,R=301,NC]

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