Removing index.php from URL with htaccess

Question

I know that there are a lot of similar posts (I went thru the most of them) but for some reason nothing helps removing index.php from URL.

these:

http://www.example.com/index.php/about
http://example.com/index.php/about

should become:

http://www.example.com/about
http://example.com/about

I've run: sudo a2enmod rewrite

Config file:

inanzzz@ubuntu:/etc/apache2/sites-enabled$ sudo nano 000-default.conf

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
    DocumentRoot /var/www/html

    <Directory /var/www/html/>
            Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
            # changed from None to FileInfo
            AllowOverride FileInfo
            Order allow,deny
            allow from all
    </Directory>

    ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
    CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
</VirtualHost>

Some of the solutions I tried:

1) Link

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

2) Link

Options +FollowSymlinks -MultiViews

RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\. [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^(.*/)index\.html$ [NC]
RewriteRule . http://www.%{HTTP_HOST}%1 [R=301,NE,L]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\. [NC]
RewriteRule . http://www.%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [NE,R=301,L]

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

3) Link

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)\.php$ /$1 [L,R=301]

4) Link

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} index.php
RewriteRule ^(.*)index.php$ /$1/ [R=301,L]

5) Link This return 500 Internal server error

Options +FollowSymLinks -MultiViews
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

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]

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score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 22 '14 at 16:40

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Try these rules in your root .htaccess:

Options +FollowSymLinks -MultiViews
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} \s/+index\.php/(\S+) [NC]
RewriteRule ^ /%1 [R=301,L,NE]

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

answered Nov 22 '14 at 16:40

anubhava

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Why you don't use `RewriteRule ^index\.php/(.+) /$1 [R=301,L]` for the fisrt part ? – Croises Nov 22 '14 at 16:44
@anubhava - 5th was yours anyway and this return 500 as well. – BentCoder Nov 22 '14 at 16:45
@inanzzz: Check Apache error.log to see what the actual error is. – anubhava Nov 22 '14 at 16:47
@Croises: `RewriteRule ^index\.php/(.+) /$1 [R=301,L]` will cause looping. – anubhava Nov 22 '14 at 16:47
@anubhava - it is empty – BentCoder Nov 22 '14 at 16:59
That means you're not looking at correct error log file, every 500 error is written in error log with actual reason of 500 – anubhava Nov 22 '14 at 17:00
@anubhava - Sorry if I try to well understand... but with `index.php` it's the first, and without the second, I can't see where is the loop. The second change again with `index.php`, but with `[L]` don't use again this .htaccess ? – Croises Nov 22 '14 at 17:06
`L` only causes current loop to end in `mod_rewrite`, it doesn't mean not to use this rule again. Pls test it to see it causing looping. – anubhava Nov 22 '14 at 17:09
I tried without problem. There must be anything else that escapes me. Thank you! – Croises Nov 22 '14 at 17:19

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