Remove index.php from URL?

[ddp1]

Hi,

I was hoping someone could offer me a little assistance please?

I'm looking to remove the index.php from the url

so for example currently my website is displayed as:-

http://websiteexample.co.uk/index.php/help.html

I'm hoping to change this to

http://websiteexample.co.uk/help.html

There are a few topics already created but i've still not been able to get it to work. I'm currently on version 1.5.23 (looking to update soon) my SEO settings are set as
Search Engine friendly Yes
Use Apache mode No
Add suffix to URL Yes

I then read that I need to rename the htaaccess file, to start can someone confirm for me how i will know which htaaccess file i will need to rename? is this the file under /public_html/?

Any help is really appreciated.

[imanickam]

To remove the text string index.php, in addition to setting the option "Search Engine Friendly URLs" to Yes, you have to also set the option "Use Apache mod_rewrite" to Yes. After this you have to copy the file htaccess.txt to .htaccess

The file htaccess.txt is in the directory where Joomla! is installed.

Review of the content of the help screen (https://docs.joomla.org/Help15:Screen.config.15) would be of help.

Note: Joomla! 1.5 is no longer supported. The current version of Joomla! is 3.5.1. In addition, the last version of Joomla! 1.5 is 1.5.26 (https://docs.joomla.org/Joomla_1.5_version_history) with two hot fixes (https://docs.joomla.org/Security_hotfix ... L_versions) after that.

[Per Yngve Berg]

http://joomlacode.org/gf/download/frsre ... ackage.zip

[ddp1]

Thanks guys,

imanickam so I have to rename the htaccess.txt file to .htaccess? Do i have to make any changes within this file or do i only have to rename it?

Per Yngve Berg Thanks, i have downloaded the zip file and i can see the htaccess file in the root directory (same as mine)

[ddp1]

I have made the apache change but I get the following error (not edited the htaaccess file yet)

Not Found

The requested URL /test.html was not found on this server.
Apache Server at [spam].co.uk Port 80

[imanickam]

It is not clear from your answer whether you have renamed the file htaccess.txt to .htaccess? Yes, as the documentation says, you have to rename the file htaccess.txt. As such the file may not need any change. However, depending on the environment, things may have to changed within the file.

Whether the Home page gets displayed?

What is the URL of your site so that others can see what is happening?

Note: Test whether your Apache server has been correctly configured to handle mod_rewrite. Review of the document https://docs.joomla.org/How_to_check_if ... our_server would be of help.

[ddp1]

Hi, yes i renamed the file to .htaccess and changed the apache to Yes however as in my previous post when i click on a link i get an error page

Not Found

The requested URL /test.html was not found on this server.
Apache Server at mywebsite.co.uk Port 80

I have followed your documentation and it does not appear that apache is working as after renaming it to .htaaccess i replaced all the text with

RewriteEngine On
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteRule ^joomla\.html http://www.joomla.org/? [R=301,L]

Then when i browse to

http://www.mywebsite.co.uk/joomla.html

I get the following error

Not Found

The requested URL /joomla.html was not found on this server.

Apache Server at www.mywebsite.co.uk Port 80