.htaccess to remove index.php

Thursday 22 April 2010 6:08:03 am

Hi,

I read many thread about .htaccess configuration to remove index.php of url's and tried almost everything but not the right one.

I'm using eZpublish 4.2 with mod_rewrite on server side.
What should I had in .htaccess and should I also set ForceVirtualHost to true in site.ini override?

Thanks for your help.

Laurent

Friday 23 April 2010 11:41:39 am

Hello,

if you have your mod_rewrite rules correctly in place you should be able to call your pages omitting index.php?/

Since eZ Publish doesn't know anything about it, the generated URL's still contain the index part, that's what the ForceVirtualHost parameter is for, to generate URL's as if you where using the VirtualHost mode.

I came up with the following .htaccess file:

DirectoryIndex index.php

RewriteEngine On

# RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^webdav\..*
# RewriteRule ^(.*) webdav.php [L]
# RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^soap\..*
# RewriteRule ^(.*) soap.php [L]
 
RewriteRule content/treemenu/? /index_treemenu.php [L]

RewriteRule ^var/storage/.* - [L]
RewriteRule ^var/[^/]+/storage/.* - [L]
RewriteRule ^var/([^/]+/)?cache/(texttoimage|public)/.* - [L]
             
RewriteRule ^design/[^/]+/(stylesheets|images|javascript)/.* - [L]
RewriteRule ^share/icons/.* - [L]
RewriteRule ^extension/[^/]+/design/[^/]+/(stylesheets|images|javascripts?)/.* - [L]
Rewriterule ^packages/styles/.+/(stylesheets|images|javascript)/[^/]+/.* - [L]
RewriteRule ^packages/styles/.+/thumbnail/.* - [L]
             
RewriteRule ^favicon\.ico - [L]
RewriteRule ^robots\.txt - [L]

# Uncomment the following lines when using popup style debug.
# RewriteRule ^var/cache/debug\.html.* - [L]
# RewriteRule ^var/[^/]+/cache/debug\.html.* - [L]
RewriteRule .* index.php [L]

Thursday 12 May 2011 12:27:57 pm

This is bad... I was wondering where my acp options have gone. It seems that it was not loading the library files, so, after some research, I found on Virtual-host-setup section in the installation manual that we need to change the line

RewriteRule ^extension/[^/]+/design/[^/]+/(stylesheets|images|javascripts?)/.* - [L]

to

RewriteRule ^/extension/[^/]+/design/[^/]+/(stylesheets|flash|images|lib|javascripts?)/.* - [L]

Sorry for replying in an old thread, but this may lead others, as it lead me, into error.