How remove index.php from URL with .htaccess

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Everyone prefers a cleaner-looking URL for their website and "index.php" might be the one thing they don't want to see in their URL. It is also important to remove unwanted text from your URL to make it look more relevant and represent the content of that particular page.

There are different ways to do so depending on different factors like the framework you are using etc. but the easiest and most used one is with .htaccess.

Removing index.php from URL:

To remove or hide index.php from the URL link, you have to put the following code in your .htaccess file.

After putting this code in your .htaccess file it will simply hide the index.php from the Website's URL.

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

# Removes index.php
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^.*/index.php
RewriteRule ^(.*)index.php$ http://example.com/$1 [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^(.*)index$ http://.example.com/$1 [R=301,L]

This is how your original URL looked:

http://www.yoursite.com/index.php/category/blog

But when you choose to remove index.php from this URL, it will become like this:

http://www.yoursite.com/category/blog

It is surely looking more relevant than before.

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