.htaccess to remove a string within a URL

Question

I am working on a website that uses DokuWiki and the website is called MiscWiki.

Currently all of the URLs are structured this way

http://www.miscwiki.org/doku.php/something/something

I would like to use a .htaccess rewrite to remove the doku.php from the URL. I currently have this statement but it is not working.

RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/doku.php/?(.*)$ /$1 [R=301,L]

Thank you for the help on this one.

anubhava · Accepted Answer · 2016-11-13 18:40:05Z

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You can use these rules in your site root .htaccess:

AcceptPathInfo On
RewriteEngine On

## Uncomment next 2 lines only when you want to remove doku.php/ from old links
#RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} \s/+doku\.php/(\S*) [NC]
#RewriteRule ^ /%1 [R=301,NE,L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule .+ doku.php/$0 [L]

edited Nov 13, 2016 at 18:40

answered Nov 13, 2016 at 18:03

anubhava

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4 Comments

Todd Over a year ago

This works well and answers the question, but it causes a problem I did not predict. Links on the site that have the old URL structure now do not work. Is there a way to make this work, whilst preserving old links that still contain doku.php?

Todd Over a year ago

On the homepage of miscwiki.org, the links in blue now no longer work and I think it is because they still contain doku.php.

anubhava Over a year ago

ok I commented out first redirect rule. You can test after clearing browser cache.

Todd Over a year ago

Thank you for all the help, I will keep working on this problem and see if I can come to a solution. All the best

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