htaccess doesnt remove index.php if WWW is in the URL

Question

Using Htaccess, I am able to remove the www from the url but im struggling endlessly with completely removing the index.php.

I am using the codeigniter framework and I checked my config file.

$config['index_page'] = '';
$config['base_url'] = '';

Ive also tried: as someone suggested elsewhere on S.O:

$config['base_url'] = '/';

My htaccess file looked like this:
RewriteEngine On RewriteBase / RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?/$1 [L]

#Force non-www:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.mywebsite\.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://mywebsite.com/$1 [L,R=301]

Ive tried all the different versions of writing the mode-rewrite rule, this one works the best but it adds a question mark to the URL and a forward slash RewriteEngine On

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

The result at the moment, if i type www.mywebsite.com, it will change to mywebsite.com, which is correct.

But if I type www.mywebsite.com/someuri then it becomes www.mywebsite.com/index.php?someuri

with the last modrewrite rule the url becomes www.mywebsite.com/?/someuri

I then tried adding the question mark after index.php like this:

# Now the CodeIgniter part
RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php|resources|robots\.txt)
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?/$1 [L,QSA]

With the latter, if i type index.php into the URL, it doesnt go away.

I clearly dont understand mod-rewrite, can someone please guide me in the right direction.

Probably because you have [L,R=301] in your forcing non-www rule. The L indicates last rule, so don't process any further. Try removing that from there. I can't test it at the moment for it to be an answer, I'm not at a machine with Apache installed. — gabe3886
– gabe3886, Commented Apr 18, 2017 at 15:40
You might find this htaccess tester really handy http://htaccess.madewithlove.be/ — DFriend
– DFriend, Commented Apr 18, 2017 at 15:56
I removed [L] the result is still the same. It was worth a try though — Ask
– Ask, Commented Apr 18, 2017 at 16:37
Possible duplicate of php echo base_url() bringing me to 404 — Abdulla Nilam
– Abdulla Nilam, Commented Apr 19, 2017 at 2:13

Abanoub Makram · Accepted Answer · 2017-04-18 17:03:36Z

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Try the following

Open config.php and do following replaces

$config['index_page'] = "index.php"

to

$config['index_page'] = ""

In some cases the default setting for uri_protocol does not work properly. Just replace

$config['uri_protocol'] ="AUTO"

by

$config['uri_protocol'] = "REQUEST_URI"

HTACCESS

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php|resources|robots\.txt)
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/$1 [L,QSA]

answered Apr 18, 2017 at 17:03

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3 Comments

DFriend Over a year ago

Also $config['base_url'] Must be set. e.g. $config['base_url'] = 'http://mywebsite.com/'; (include the trailing slash)

Ask Over a year ago

Thank you, the solution you suggestion is one which ive tried before. It works. but if I add. www to the url then index.php? comes up. Also if i manually insert index.php in the URL then it remains, it does not get removed.

user4419336 Over a year ago

Codeigniter 3 versions do not have AUTO for uri_protocol

Faisal Efendi · Accepted Answer · 2017-04-19 15:39:05Z

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Try the following Open config.php and do following replaces

$config['index_page'] = '';

to

$config['index_page'] = 'index.php';

config base_url

$config['base_url'] = '';

to

$ark_root           = "http://".$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'];
$ark_root          .= str_replace(basename($_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME']),"", $_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME']);
$config['base_url'] = $ark_root;

.htaccess

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule .* index.php?/$0 [PT,L]

answered Apr 19, 2017 at 15:39

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