RE: [PHP] Re: Remove index.php from url

> -----Original Message----- > From: Ashley Sheridan [mailto:ash@ashleysheridan.co.uk] > Sent: Saturday, October 11, 2008 11:44 AM > To: Shawn McKenzie > Cc: php-general@lists.php.net > Subject: Re: [PHP] Re: Remove index.php from url > > On Sat, 2008-10-11 at 11:02 -0500, Shawn McKenzie wrote: > > Shawn McKenzie wrote: > > > OOzy Pal wrote: > > >> Hello, > > >> > > >> I expect that this question been beaten to death. I googled for > many hours > > >> and all what I found is related to one CMS or another. I want to > do is to > > >> make a very very very simple index.php that when is it called it > > >> automatically detect the page and load it. For example, when I > call > > >> > > >> www.xyz.com/index.php/company, it calls for company.html. I have > made that > > >> index.php. Now I need to remove this index.php from the url. > > >> > > >> Can you help? > > >> > > > mod_rewite if you use Apache. In the simplest form (not tested): > > > > > > .htaccess > > > > > > RewriteRule ^index\.php\/(.*)$ $1 [L,NC,NS] > > > > > > HTH > > > -Shawn > > Scrub that. The rule is backwards. But mod_rewrite is the answer. > > > > -Shawn > > > Incidentally, does anyone know how this would be achieved on IIS? We've > got a site at work that's running off a CMS I knocked up, but they'd > prefer the URLs to look proper, without the query string. http://www.codeplex.com/IIRF - Ionic ISAPI Rewrite Filter It's free under the Ms-PL (Microsoft Permissive License), and uses Regular Expressions. Took me a while of rooting through crappy URL filters that charge $500+ just for RegEx functionality to find this gem. I've tested it in a few different situations here at work, and it does the job. HTH, Todd Boyd Web Programmer