How to remove "/index.php?", ".php", and force trailing slash "/" in URLs? (htaccess rewrite rules)

Question

we have a new site in a new directory in public_html as shown in below with yellow. We need to add rules to new_site/.htaccess to fulfill the following three rules:

Removing .php from the end of URLs
Force trailing slash / at the end of most urls (excluding .jpg, .png, ...)
Removing /index.php? from the middle of various URLs.

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Most probably, this would be what I tried to ask:

Currently,

domain.com/ns/abc.php
domain.com/ns/abc_abc.php
domain.com/ns/index.php?/abc
domain.com/ns/abc/index.php?/abc
domain.com/ns/abc/abc/index.php?/abc/123
domain.com/ns/abc/abc/index.php?/abc/abc/123/123

To

domain.com/ns/abc/
domain.com/ns/abc_abc/
domain.com/ns/abc/
domain.com/ns/abc/abc/
domain.com/ns/abc/abc/abc/123/
domain.com/ns/abc/abc/abc/abc/123/123/

We have also tried some previously posted rules to do this task. Such as

Options +FollowSymlinks -MultiViews
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /ns

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?$1 [L,QSA]

RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,}\s(.*)/index\.php [NC]
RewriteRule ^ %1 [R=301,L]

The above code helped us and removed index.php. However, we could not figure it out how to remove /index.php?.

Any comment/advice is appreciated! Thanks!

Pretty URL #1 and #3 are same but they are supporting different URLs, that cannot really happen. — anubhava
– anubhava, Commented Mar 30, 2014 at 17:50

Howli · Accepted Answer · 2014-04-03 00:23:04Z

1

The following should allow you to achieve this:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^ns/(.*)/(.*)/index.php/(.*)/(.*)/(.*)/(.*)$ /ns/$1/$2/$3/$4/$5/$6/ [R,L]
RewriteRule ^ns/(.*)/(.*)/index.php/(.*)/(.*)$ /ns/$1/$2/$3/$4/ [R,L]
RewriteRule ^ns/(.*)/index.php/(.*)$ /ns/$1/$2/ [R,L]
RewriteRule ^ns/index.php/(.*)$ /ns/$1/ [R,L]
RewriteRule ^ns/(.*).php$ /ns/$1/ [R,L]

EDIT: Second try:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^(GET|POST)\ /ns/(.*)/(.*)/index\.php\?/(.*)\ HTTP
RewriteRule ^ /ns/%2/%3/%4\? [R,L]
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^(GET|POST)\ /ns/(.*)/index\.php\?/(.*)\ HTTP
RewriteRule ^ /ns/%2/%3\? [R,L]
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^(GET|POST)\ /ns/index\.php\?/(.*)\ HTTP
RewriteRule ^ /ns/%2\? [R,L]
RewriteRule ^ns/(.*).php$ /ns/$1/ [R,L]

edited Apr 3, 2014 at 0:23

answered Mar 29, 2014 at 19:07

Howli

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1453939 Over a year ago

thanks for your answer! I tried it and it didn't work. Actually, there is also a ? after index.php and I tried with that too, and didnt work. Thanks again! @Howlin

Howli Over a year ago

You do need RewriteEngine On at the start of the htaccess file. s for the index.php? I missed that. I'll try and edit if I can add that.

1453939 Over a year ago

Yes, I have RewriteEngine On! @Howlin

Howli Over a year ago

Does it at least remove the .php from the abc.php file? Also what causes there to be a ? in index.php

1453939 Over a year ago

Not sure @Howlin ! Its a CMS we are trying to use. If you have time, you can see it here in this link It seems to me in the config files they are using index.php? Also, still could not remove .php

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