How do you remove index.php from a url using mod_write, while still allowing php to see the path with index.php in it?

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For the past 3 days I have been playing around with Apache's mod_rewrite trying to get it to remove index.php from my url, while php still needs to see it in the path.

Essentially PHP needs to see this
http://example.com/index.php/Page/Param1/Param2

While the user needs to see this
http://example.com/Page/Param1/Param2

What I have right now is the following in an htaccess file

Options +FollowSymLinks -MultiViews
# Turn mod_rewrite on
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]

Which was taken from another page, and is close to what I need. However this seems to be cutting off everything after the http://example.com/ part. How can I get mod_rewrite to show the user one thing and have php see something else?

Did you ever get this straightened out? I'm attempting to do the same, just haven't found a working solution. — Eric McCormick
– Eric McCormick, Commented Jan 13, 2015 at 17:05

anubhava · Accepted Answer · 2012-07-20 03:39:01Z

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This is the modified code you can use in your .htaccess (under DOCUMENT_ROOT) to remove index.php from URI:

Options +FollowSymLinks -MultiViews
# Turn mod_rewrite on
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

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

RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,}\s(.*)/index\.php(/[^\s\?]+)? [NC]
RewriteRule ^ %1%2 [R=302,L]

Change R=302 to R=301 once you're satisfied that it is working fine for you.

answered Jul 20, 2012 at 3:39

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Jon Lin · Accepted Answer · 2012-07-20 01:08:51Z

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This rule:

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

Needs to look like this:

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

Also note that RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?$1 [L,QSA] doesn't create a URI that looks like this /index.php/Page/Param1/Param2, it creates a query string that looks like this: /index.php?Page/Param1/Param2. Which isn't at all what you said PHP needs to see.

answered Jul 20, 2012 at 1:08

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Metropolis Over a year ago

Sorry to bring up this old topic, but I just came back up to something I needed this on lol. You said at the bottom that what I had was wrong to get what I wanted. What do I need to change that part to?

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