hottrout - 3:40 pm on Nov 4, 2011 (gmt 0)

I understand. Thanks for clearing that up. Is it good practice or does it provide a google url benefit to remove the index.php from the url?

Also can I modify this command in the root htaccess to do the job of both?

RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ ([^/]+/)*index\.php\ HTTP/
RewriteRule ^(([^/]+/)*)index\.php$ http://www.example.com/$1 [R=301,L]