Removing index.php from URLS with .htaccess

Question

I have an index.php controller what all URLs that aren't existing files redirect to. The .htaccess rules I currently have look like this:

RewriteEngine On
DirectorySlash Off

# Remove Trailing Slashes
RedirectMatch 302 ^(.*)/$ $1

# Remove WWW
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.(.+)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^ http://%1%{REQUEST_URI} [R=302]

# Reroute to index.php
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/$1 [L,QSA]

What I want to do is use a 301 redirect if index.php is included in the URL. BUT! I can't use RewriteBase or queries that start with a slash because the webapp I'm developing could be in a subfolder. So basically, I only want to rewrite for the current directory:

example.com/foo/index.php/bar/whatever should redirect to example.com/foo/bar/whatever example.com/foo/index/bar/whatever should also redirect to example.com/foo/bar/whatever

localhost/place/foo/index.php/bar/whatever should redirect to localhost/place/foo/bar/whatever localhost/place/foo/index/bar/whatever should also redirect to localhost/place/foo/bar/whatever

How can I accomplish this with .htaccess?

UPDATED CODE: Everything here works EXCEPT: index.php is not removed from anywhere in the URL.

Here's the code:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
DirectorySlash Off

# Remove WWW
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.(.+)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^ http://%1%{REQUEST_URI} [R=302,L]

# Remove Trailing Slashes
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} \s(.+?)/+[?\s]
RewriteRule ^ %1 [R=302,L]

# Reroute to index.php
#RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php)
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?cURL=/$1 [L,QSA]

</IfModule>

anubhava · Accepted Answer · 2014-01-28 16:07:33Z

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Not a good idea to mix mod_rewrite rules with mod_alias ones. Try this updated .htaccess:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
DirectorySlash Off

# Remove WWW
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.(.+)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^ http://%1%{REQUEST_URI} [R=302,L]

# Remove Trailing Slashes
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} \s(.+?)/+[?\s]
RewriteRule ^ %1 [R=302,L]

# remove index.php
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} /index\.php[\s?/] [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*?)index\.php(/.*)?/?$ /$1$2 [L,R=301,NC,NE]

# Reroute to index.php
RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php)
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?cURL=/$1 [L,QSA]
</IfModule>

edited Jan 28, 2014 at 16:07

answered Jan 28, 2014 at 4:38

anubhava

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Michelle Over a year ago

With example.com/index.php/foo/ I get example.com//foo/ and with example.com/foo/index.php/foo/bar/ I get example.com//foo/bar/ And without the trailing slash (which the URLs I'm generating do not have) I get a redirect loop.

anubhava Over a year ago

See update now, For http://localhost/foo/index.php/foo/bar I am getting http://localhost/foo/foo/bar

anubhava Over a year ago

Make sure this rule is your first rule.

Michelle Over a year ago

localhost/foo/index.php/foo/bar is getting localhost/foo/bar for me with this.

Michelle Over a year ago

With this, example.com/index.php/blah/blah => example.com//blah/blah and example.com/foo/index.php/blah/blah => example.com/foo//blah/blah. Also localhost/foo/index.php/blah/blah => localhost//blah/blah (removing "foo") ...I think we are close! Thank you for all your help!

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Rakesh Sharma · Accepted Answer · 2014-01-28 04:40:57Z

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Make sure you have mod rewrite on on your server try

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

answered Jan 28, 2014 at 4:40

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Michelle Over a year ago

This seems to work for everything...except removing trailing slashes. I get a query string of the same URL when it removes a slash. IE: example.com/test/123/456/ becomes example.com/test/123/456?/test/123/456/

Agha Umair Ahmed · Accepted Answer · 2014-01-28 04:50:41Z

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You can use like this

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?/$1 [L]

answered Jan 28, 2014 at 4:50

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