remove index.php url rewriting .htaccess

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I'd written this code for 301 redirect

RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^.*\/index\.php\ HTTP/
RewriteRule ^(.*)index\.php$ /$1 [R=301,L]

It is working well in case if I do visit my site as http://mysite.com/index.php, it redirects me to http://mysite.com

But on my localhost if I try to visit index.php as localhost/mysite/index.php it redirects me to localhost.

How could I solve this problem? Is the code written above is correct?

On your localhost, you need to add `RewriteBase /mysite/` above those lines since the site isn't at the root of server — keithhatfield, Sep 11 '13 at 13:34

Jon Lin · Accepted Answer · 2013-09-11T15:32:29.933

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It looks like you have your htaccess file in your document root on your server, and in the mysite directory on localhost. Since the location of the htaccess file is pretty important on how it routes URIs, you need to make it indifferent to the location of the file. You can do this by extracting the path info from your condition instead of the URI that's passed into the rule to match against:

RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /(.*)index\.php($|\ |\?)
RewriteRule ^ /%1 [R=301,L]

The %{THE_REQUEST} variable is the first line of the actual HTTP request, which looks something like:

GET /path/index.php HTTP/1.1

The pattern first matches any number of possible METHODS (GET, POST, HEAD, etc), then it creates a grouping of the URI path that's before the index.php, then ends the matching, since we don't really care what's after the index.php.

edited Sep 11 '13 at 15:32

answered Sep 11 '13 at 14:49

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how do this code works `RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /(.*)index\.php($|\ )`? a little explanation on elements – Mohammad Faisal Sep 11 '13 at 15:17
still not working on `localhost`. I'd been redirected to `localhost` instead of `localhost/mysite` – Mohammad Faisal Sep 12 '13 at 04:19
Does it capture the URL parameters? – Calmarius May 06 '14 at 08:23

score 4 · Answer 2 · edited Sep 11 '13 at 14:50

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try this

RewriteRule ^(.*)index\.php$ /$1 [R=301,NC]

edited Sep 11 '13 at 14:50

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answered Sep 11 '13 at 13:32

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what's the difference? – Mohammad Faisal Sep 11 '13 at 13:32
[r=301,nc] The [nc] specifies that the http host is case insensitive. – ratnesh dwivedi Sep 11 '13 at 13:36
and what does `L` specifies? – Mohammad Faisal Sep 11 '13 at 13:37
OPs issue is not with uppercase/lowercase, it is with the site base. – keithhatfield Sep 11 '13 at 13:37
@dleiftah: what should I do in this case? – Mohammad Faisal Sep 11 '13 at 13:38
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L=Last ... no more rewrites will be processed after that one. I put a comment on the question about adding the `RewriteBase` directive – keithhatfield Sep 11 '13 at 13:38
@dleiftah some times its create problem thats why case is required ohterwise code seems perfect for both. – ratnesh dwivedi Sep 11 '13 at 13:39
@dleiftah: post it in answer. If it worked for me, you will get answer accepted. – Mohammad Faisal Sep 11 '13 at 13:40

score 2 · Answer 3 · answered Sep 11 '13 at 13:43

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If your site is not at the root of the server (which it's not on your localhost), you will need to add a RewriteBase directive: https://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/mod/mod_rewrite.html#rewritebase

You need to add the line:

RewriteBase /mysite/

above the current lines in the htaccess on your localhost

answered Sep 11 '13 at 13:43

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is there could be any solution that will work on both side (i.e., `localhost` and `server`) – Mohammad Faisal Sep 11 '13 at 13:48

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Jan 21 '15 at 15:57

While RewriteBase directive stands for this usage, you may want to test for localhost and rewrite root to your subdirectory only if test == true. eg:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^localhost$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/subdirectory/
RewriteRule (.*) /subdirectory/$1 [L]

Note I have not used this for some time and cannot guarantee you it'll work out of the box; might need some edit.

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