howto remove 'index.php' in urls

Tuesday 11 November 2003 4:38:48 am

I have the same problem.
The only way you can fix it afaik is to put your rewrite rules in httpd.conf.
As soon as you put them into .htaccess, you are stuck with the index.php bit.

I have logged a bug report, but I doubt that it is high on anyones todo list.

My advice would be to ask your webserver admin/ISP/hosting provider/whatever to put the rewrite rules into your httpd.conf for you.

Tuesday 11 November 2003 9:04:06 pm

You also need to have both mod_rewrite *and* mod_proxy compiled and enabled don't you so that you can use the RewriteRule parameter [P] instead of [R], thereby 'hiding' the index.php????

Regards,
Willie

Wednesday 12 November 2003 12:14:49 am

In response to myself:

I have created a temporary solution/hack that does the job:

In my .htaccess i have:

RewriteRule !(^/?user/?.*$|^/?admin/?.*$|\.(gif|css|jpe?g|png|js|asf|avi|wmv|swf|xsl|jar|html))$ index.php

RewriteRule ^/?(admin|user)/?(.*)$ index.php/$1/$2

This effectively removes the index.php from the URLs.

Next to remove the 'index.php' from the links within the templates i created a template operator called 'ezniceurl', this replaces the 'ezurl' operator. The code from the modify function in that class is:

function modify( &$tpl, &$operatorName, &$operatorParameters, &$rootNamespace, &$currentNamespace, &$operatorValue, &$namedParameters )
{
require_once('lib/ezutils/classes/ezini.php');
require_once('lib/ezutils/classes/ezsys.php');

$ini = eZINI::instance();
eZSys::init( $ini );

// This siteAccessName eg: 'user' or 'admin'
$siteAccessName = $GLOBALS['eZCurrentAccess']['name'];

// append a separator if needed
if(substr($siteAccessName,-1)!=eZSys::FileSeparator() and $operatorValue[0]!=eZSys::FileSeparator())
$siteAccessName .= eZSys::FileSeparator();

$operatorValue = eZSys::wwwDir() .
eZSys::FileSeparator().
$siteAccessName .
$operatorValue;
}

(To find out how to make an operator check out the ones in the contributions section)

Very simple. It just appends the current siteAccess name to the ezroot value.

I am still not convinced this is a usefull solution, but for time being I am going to run with it, for lack of a better solution.

Regards,
Lachy

Sunday 23 November 2003 5:14:15 pm

My last reply to this thread outline the steps for removing the 'index.php' in the URL. Have you tried this? It is working for me.

Monday 24 November 2003 1:44:02 am

Simion,
I am glad you got it to work. But i do need to point out some of the limitations with this 'hack'.

Depending on your config, in order to truely remove all instances you will need to do a search-&-replace for all template in your dir and the design/standard dir. This creates some problems in the admin section.

In particular, the redirects after objects removal, submitting a newly published item etc etc break.... and I have not worked out how to fix this yet. This is something I am just living with.

My recommendation is to leave the standard directory as is and suffice with the index.php in your admin section and just override any instances of ezurl on your frontend that are coming from the design/standard/templates dir.

I do agree that this was way to hard to do. It should be something very simply configurable in the settings/* dir - maybe it is and no-one has pointed that out yet...

Monday 24 November 2003 4:02:59 am

Indeed, it possible could be a better solution. But I felt queezy at the thought of hacking the files under kernel/ and or lib/ made me think twice. If were to do that then upgradeing version would be a big and I don't know how deep rabbit hole goes in terms of interdependancy goes with these things...

What would be nice is if the ez team slated some patches for the related kernel+libs files for a future release to support this.

I guess if some-one should propose a patch it's chances of adoption would be much higher...

But who knows how many ppl even consider this important? you + me = 2...

Friday 12 May 2006 10:35:17 am

@Lachy: I tried to implement your solution but need some more guidance. Can you maybe send me your files, or point me to instrauction on where to paste your code?

Wednesday 17 May 2006 9:36:24 am

I have placed the code above in my siteaccess override and activated the rewrite rules, but the links in the pages produced by eZ Publish still show the index.php part.

I am now going through all my templates to change the ezurl operator into ezroot, which is a lot of work.