301 redirect issue.

[chetanmadaan]

Hi -

we have a Joomla setup example.com and the site has SEF url's turned on in the configuration so it generates URL's as.

http://www.example.com/somepage/index.phpthrows 404 error.

and
http://www.example.com/somepageWorking fine

now that part /index.php is not working and throwing a 404 and the other work is just working fine.

Is it possible to redirect all url's which have /index.php at the end of them and redirect them to the url without /index.php

for instance.

if the url is

http://www.example.com/somecategory/some-article/index.php

redirect to:
http://www.example.com/somecategory/some-article

so, just we strip index.php from the url's like we do in php using srt_replace... but just use .htaccess to do it?

Thanks

[g1smd]

Standard piece of code that should be on almost every site:

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

This goes before your non-www to www canonical redirect.

[chetanmadaan]

let me give that a shot... i will be back :)

[phranque]

You also need to fix your Joomla configuration settings so you are not internally linking to the /index.php URLs.

[chetanmadaan]

roger that

[chetanmadaan]

i got a 500 error putting this on... i even cleared everything else from the file... any other tips?

[lucy24]

Now, wait.

http://www.example.com/somecategory/some-article/index.php

redirect to:
http://www.example.com/somecategory/some-article

Those are entirely different URLs. Add an index redirect, and the first type of request would be pointed to yet a third URL,

http://www.example.com/somecategory/some-article/

Before you start messing with your rules, you need to decide for yourself what you want the URLs to look like. Either with trailing slash or without; not both.

i got a 500 error putting this on... i even cleared everything else from the file... any other tips?

You mean your htaccess file consists, in its entirety, of those two lines-- RewriteCond followed by RewriteRule? That should have no effect at all, because the RewriteEngine hasn't been turned on. If you're using Joomla-- or any CMS-- you don't need to even consider the possibility that mod_rewrite isn't available. So there's something else going on.

[phranque]

i got a 500 error

what's in the server error log?

[chetanmadaan]

Well... i can't access the server log because it's cpanel and i didn't had root access and errors weren't showing up error_log file at all.

Anyways, i got it solved using PHP as i have more experience in Joomla and PHP

Here is the code i used.

// Get the Joomla URL instance
$u =& JURI::getInstance();
// Get the complete URL
$commmonurl = $u->toString();
// Create a new URL and strip index.php from it.
$newurl = str_replace('index.php','',$commmonurl);
// let's find index.php
$found = strpos($commmonurl,'/index.php');

if found returns true then redirect user to $newurl.