Topic: [SOLVED] How to remove '/index.php/' from URLs

[bodimon]

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 php 5.2.6
sobi2 rc2.9.2.1
joomla 1.5.11
mysql 4.1.25
sobisef rc 1.3

I've installed the newest version of Sobi2 and newest sobisef.  After running sobisef, I see that links to my listing have a '/index.php/' in the URL such as http://site.com/index.php/name/category/item.  This does not appear within manage sef urls so this doesn't look like a sobisef problem.  I would like for the /index.php/ not to appear so that the URL looks like http://site.com/name/category/item.  Would anyone know where I can change this?

Thanks!

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[amorosso]

To my understanding that is all controlled via your htaccess file and the way your sef com. writes it. I use sh404sef and that has it as a option

[Robert_Vining]

If using the standard Joomla SEF, you need to rename your htaccess.txt file to .htaccess for this to be corrected.

This will need to be done with an FTP program more than likely, and I am talking about the htaccess.txt file that is in the root folder of your Joomla installation.

Also, be sure you have all 3 SEF options checked in the Global Configuration for Joomla.

[bodimon]

Thanks for the great suggestions and help!!  Since my .htaccess was already renamed from htaccess.txt, I just had to change the 'use apache mod_rewrite' setting to yes under the global configuration.  My seo friendly urls was already set to yes.  After saving, just refreshed the page and it worked!!  Thanks so much again!

[kleinbaas]

Didnt work for me at first (on http://www.searchourworld.com), but there was something wrong with my .htaccess code. I coped the code from another site, (http://www.set8.net) which worked.

See below for the code in the working .htaccess (just change "set8.net" for your site's URL).

##  Can be commented out if causes errors.
Options +FollowSymLinks

#  mod_rewrite in use

RewriteEngine On

# Rule for duplicate content removal : www.domain.com vs domain.com
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^set8.net [NC]
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.set8.net/$1 [R=301,L,NC]

########## Begin - Joomla! core SEF Section
#
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/index.php
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} (/|\.php|\.html|\.htm|\.feed|\.pdf|\.raw|/[^.]*)$  [NC]
RewriteRule (.*) index.php
RewriteRule .* - [E=HTTP_AUTHORIZATION:%{HTTP:Authorization},L]
#
########## End - Joomla! core SEF Section

Hope this helps you (dont add this bit to .htaccess) :-)