Question

I recently put up a site and I have been doing some SEO.
However I noticed that links from Google search append index.php to my links.

For example a site page which clearly appears as www.example.com/index/why on search together with correct content sample when clicked on ends up in the new browser as www.example.com/index.php/why

Note that on my site all links are redirected to SSL and I use the MVC stucture.

Any directives that am may be missing?

My .htaccess file is as below

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteRule (.*) https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [R,L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -s [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -l [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
RewriteRule ^.*$ - [NC,L]
RewriteRule ^.*$ index.php [NC,L]
#RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !vardump

Answer 1

I found a solution to my problem and I decided to write the .htaccess rule/condition that saved the day.

RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !^on$
RewriteRule ^(index).php(/.*) https://%{HTTP_HOST}/$1$2 [R,L]

Hope this helps someone.