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Asked: 2026-05-28T00:57:09+00:00

Several days ago I had a question about removing index.php from the address bar,

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Several days ago I had a question about removing index.php from the address bar, so the address of the page looks shorter and better. The shortest solution of this problem was (RewriteRule ^index.php / [L,R=301] in the .htaccess file). And it works!

Since I put that string into the .htaccess, some pages are redirected to the main page. I spent a lot of time to guess, why. As I understand, the answer is: with RewriteRule ^index.php / [L,R=301], $_POST parameters are not sent to the next page. $_GET parameters are OK.
Once I remove RewriteRule ^index.php / [L,R=301] from .htaccess, everything becomes fine as usual.
Why does it happen and how to fix that?

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  1. Editorial Team

    The [R] flag will incur a redirect. And user-agents issue a redirect as GET request. There is nothing that can be done if you really want to shorten URLs down to the / root path.

    You could however block POST requests specifically from being rewritten/redirected:

    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} !POST
RewriteRule ^index.php / [L,R=301]
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