.htaccess Remove index.php remove query and leave string

Question

I have been working on an .htaccess file. The url I started with was, www.example.com/index.php?page=pagetitle. I want the Link to only show www.example.com/pagetitle.

So far the only thing in my .htaccess file removes the index.php.

Options -MultiViews

RewriteEngine on

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

Any help would be greatly appreciated, I sadly don't have the knowledge to create these codes on my own.

Thank you in advance.

I will also be editing this question as I figure more of this out, from support of other people etc.

anubhava · Accepted Answer · 2013-11-13 21:24:05Z

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You can try these rules:

Options -MultiViews

RewriteEngine on

# external redirect from actual URL to pretty one
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,}\s/+index\.php\?page=([^\s&]+) [NC]
RewriteRule ^ /%1? [R=302,L]

# internal forward from pretty URL to actual one
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/?$ index.php?page=$1 [L,QSA]

answered Nov 13, 2013 at 21:24

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FearGannicus Over a year ago

It looks like it works, thank you very much! I'll accept you answer when it lets me :-)

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