How to get rid of index.php in url with Wordpress Rest API

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I have correctly setup my site locally and everything works. However, when I deployed that to a blank EC2 instance, I see that wp-json (Rest API) does not work. It works only when I put an index.php in between. In other words

This works locally:

http://localhost/wordpress/wp-json

But I need to have this on the EC2 server to make it work.

http://A.B.C.D/wordpress/index.php/wp-json

On the server, I have installed apache2 and I have not messed up with the configs yet. I am familiar with wordpress but I not so much familiar with config tweaks on apache. I have also gone thru thousands of previously posted questions, but none of them seem to answer my problem.

I think you can use .htaccess to accomplish this: stackoverflow.com/questions/31239342/… — user6057915
– user6057915, Commented Apr 16, 2021 at 23:44

Wahib Mkadmi · Accepted Answer · 2021-04-16 23:55:05Z

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First, you need to have by a2enmod rewrite in your terminal.

Then in your Apache Configuration file, make sure you have the following:

<Directory #Wordpress directory here#>
    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
    AllowOverride All #allows .htaccess directives in the next step
    Require all granted
</Directory>

Then make sure you have the following content in your root .htaccess file:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /wordpress/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule (.+) index.php/$1 [L]

answered Apr 16, 2021 at 23:55

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