how to stop site showing index.php in the URL

Question

My site is resolving with both:

What can I do so that the extra index.php doesn't show up in the URL. It's only happening with homepage.

Maybe this is what you looking for? http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4365129/htaccess-remove-index-php-from-url — node_modules, Jun 29 '16 at 07:40

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 29 '16 at 07:40

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RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /index\.php
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ / [L,R=301]

Should do the trick.

Put this in your .htaccess

answered Jun 29 '16 at 07:40

Sunny R Gupta

This does do the redirect. Isn't there an alternate to the above solution. Inner pages are working fine without the above code. I wanted some solution for homepage. – Smit Shah Jun 29 '16 at 13:54
This is the only clean way of doing it AFAIK. – Sunny R Gupta Jun 30 '16 at 11:24

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