Magento

Question for you all-

If I remove the index.php will it redirect all old URL links to the new addresses?

Thanks!
Matt

HI,
You guys are just complcating things to remove index.php..
Just go to Search engine optimization and your problem is solved.. no ned to work out with .htaccess file and all..

It works for me when selecting ‘Yes’ in:
System > Config > Web > SEO

But when I add the index.php to a url of my store in a broswer address bar, that still comes up too.

Would we need a 301 redirect to stop the possibility of search engine duplicate content, or need to add something to robots.txt?

I’m new to this side of things!

Thanks,
Ben

Sindre|ProperHost - 05 November 2008 08:21 AM

That might be the problem. Try to enable url rewrites and see if that solves it. You need mod_rewrite enabled on your server.

How do you enable mod_rewrite on your server?

Thanks in advance.

i tried this (without changing .htaccess) and it worked great but now i get a “not found” on my checkout page which is secure.

same Problem. I tried all the sayed things but if I edit the default file in /etc/apache2/sites-available then I got an 500 Interner Server error
So I must take AllowOverwrite None ... have anybody some Ideas ?

Hey guys,

I had the same problem after installation of a custom template.
First of all I needed to edit all .htaccess files commenting (with #) all the “Option” directives, because my hosting doesn’t support it.
I also added RewriteBase /.
However the thing that did the work for me was enabling the rewrite from the CP.
By the way, I wasn’t able to enable it from CP, so I directly went to database and I found the row “web/seo/use_rewrites” inside the table “core_config_data”.
Just changed the value from “0” to “1” and everything worked fine.

If you want to access your magento URL without index.php

for example:

http://domain.com/index.php/category

to

http://domain.com/category

then use the following steps

1) Make sure Apache rewrites are enabled: sudo a2enmod rewrite
2) This is the big one…I had to change my Apache config (/etc/apache2/sites-available/default) where it references AllowOverride None to AllowOverride All

3 Restart Apache (service apache2 restart)

4) Login to admin section by using the URL

http://domain.com/index.php/admin

5) then go to “System >> Configuration >>Web >> Search Engines Optimization”
Use Web Server Rewrites : YES

6) Go to “System >> Configuration >>Web >>Secure”

Use secure URL Frontend: YES

7)Then create the .htaccess file under your the magento installed folder.

If the magento installed under document root ( /home/username/public_html) then add follogig rules into .htaccess file

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

and If the magento installed under /shop or directory then add the following rules into ” /home/username/public_html/shop/.htaccess ” file.

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /shop/
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /shop/index.php [L]
</IfModule>

DONE!

shyam_saraswat, you’re a magician!
I did have trouble with all the stuff here, but in the end - it’s working!!! can’t thank you enough!

shyam_saraswat - 12 September 2012 01:53 AM

If you want to access your magento URL without index.php

5) then go to “System >> Configuration >>Web >> Search Engines Optimization”
Use Web Server Rewrites : YES

6) Go to “System >> Configuration >>Web >>Secure”

Use secure URL Frontend: YES

7)Then create the .htaccess file under your the magento installed folder.

If the magento installed under document root ( /home/username/public_html) then add follogig rules into .htaccess file

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

DONE!

Works fine for me with Magento 1.6.2.0.
Thanks!

for me it works too!
thanks!

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