Remove/Redirect index.php from url to prevent duplicate urls

Question

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We all know, that using in .htaccess:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FIL         


        

Answer 1

Insert these rules just below RewriteEngine On line:

RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} /index\.php [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*?)index\.php[^/] /$1? [L,R=302,NC,NE]

RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} /index\.php [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*?)index\.php(?:/(.*))?$ /$1$2? [L,R=302,NC,NE]

Answer 2

This solved my problem to force https & remove index.php from the url in Kohan 2.3

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} /index\.php [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*?)index\.php[^/] /$1? [L,R=302,NC,NE]

RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} /index\.php [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*?)index\.php(?:/(.*))?$ /$1$2? [L,R=302,NC,NE]


RewriteRule ^(application|system) - [F,L]

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

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

RewriteRule .* index.php/$0 [PT,L]


RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\. [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(?!localhost$|127\.0\.0\.1$)(?:www\.)?(.+)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^ https://www.%1%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L,NE]

Answer 3

After spending hours I write below code for me and its 100% working

Redirect index.php to non index.php

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

Answer 4

how can I redirect in .htaccess all urls that contain index.php to to the same url without index.php?

Add this to your .htaccess

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

Answer 5

For Nginx, here is the rules :

location / {
    rewrite ^/(.*?)index\.php[^/] /$1? redirect;
    rewrite ^/(.*?)index\.php(?:/(.*))?$ /$1$2? redirect;
}