Question

I’ve installed Magento on Linux but the URL looks a bit funny. For instance when I point my browser to http://localhost/magento/, the URL is automatically changed to http://localhost/magento/index.php/ which looks strange since index.php is a file not a directory. Then for instance when I click on shopping cart I am redirected to: http://localhost/magento/index.php/checkout/cart/

I was just wondering whether anyone knows a way to get rid of the /index.php/ intermediate bit in the URLs which are being defined in the address bar of the browser?

Answer 1

1. In Magento’s admin panel, set “Use Web Server Rewrites” (System → Configuration → Web → Search Engines Optimization) to YES and “Use secure URL Frontend” (System → Configuration → Web → Secure) to YES.
2. Make sure Apache’s rewrite mod is enabled with sudo a2enmod rewrite && sudo service apache2 restart

3. Add the following rules to the .htaccess file under the Magento root:

   <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
   RewriteEngine On
   RewriteBase /magento/
   RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
   RewriteRule . /magento/index.php [L]
   </IfModule>