.htaccess, friendly urls and index.php

[choppingblock]

Hi all,

after a longer time working with processwire without stumbling over any issues, I now have come across one (probably only due to my lack of knowledge of rewrite rules).

What I want to do, is redirect mydomain.com/index.php to mydomain.com with a 301. This should also work for all subdomains as well as without any subdomain.

How can I do this without messing up the rewrite rules for friendly urls etc. in the .htaccess ? I'm a little afraid to just go and do this by trial and error, as it has to be done on a production site...

Any help is appreciated!

[pwired]

Try this:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^index\.(php|html?)$ http://www.mydomain.com/ [R=301,L]

[choppingblock]

Thanks, but this seems to mess up the friendly urls as I suspected...

The url now is e.g. www.mydomain.com/?it=about where it's supposed to be www.mydomain.com/about

[pwired]

Ok

go here:

http://davidwalsh.name/htaccess-url

[adrian]

This should do what you want:

RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^.*/index.php 
RewriteRule ^(.*)index.php$ /$1 [R=301,L] 

[choppingblock]

that's it, thank you!