.htaccessmagentomod-rewriteurl-rewritingmagento-1.7

Redirect index.php to root in .htaccess

I installed Magento on my shared hosting server. I have made all the necessary changes in magento admin panel. All the url's work fine. But the only problem is I can access my products on the store using:

http://mydomain.com/category/product.html and also with http://mydomain.com/index.php/category/product.html

So I want to know how I can get rid of index.php. I want to redirect the url which consists of index.php to the url without index.php

Before posting here I checked the magento forums and also searched on stackoverflow but found no success.

Solution

  • You can capture the part after index.php and redirect the client with 

    RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^index\.php/(.+)$ /$1 [R,L]
RewriteRule ^index\.php/?$ / [R,L]

    This redirects all requests starting with index.php/ to the URL without index.php. Additionally index.php and index.php/ are redirected to the home page.

    Update:

    To exclude the admin area, you must insert an additional RewriteCond before the first rule 

    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/admin/

    All together gives 

    RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/admin/
RewriteRule ^index\.php/(.+)$ /$1 [R,L]
RewriteRule ^index\.php/?$ / [R,L]