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?

Question

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.

Answer 1

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.

Answer 2

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.