URL rewriting not working index.php

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URL rewriting not working index.php

Post by biggr620 » Fri Feb 02, 2018 5:01 pm

I have a website that i just upgraded from 3.7.5 to 3.8. Prior to the upgrade had no issues with URL rewriting to eliminate index.php from urls, but now I cannot get it to work. I have turned "Use URL rewriting" to yes. I have renamed htaccess.txt to .htaccess but it just comes up with an internal server error.
I don't understand what I am missing - I use this process with every Joomla site I develop without issue, but not working on this one.
Anyone have any thoughts on this?
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Re: URL rewriting not working index.php

Post by biggr620 » Mon Feb 05, 2018 9:22 pm

Finally found a solution. If anyone else is having this issue, you need to add this to your .htaccess file:
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On

# Removes index.php from ExpressionEngine URLs
RewriteCond $1 !\.(gif|jpe?g|png)$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php/$1 [L]
</IfModule>
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