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How to remove index.php from URLs in a Joomla! installation

  • Posted June 17, 2014

Hi

I have deployed an Ubuntu 14.04 LAMP droplet. I installed Joomla! to build my static pages website on it. Installed Joomla! and it started working fine (as expected).

Now, to further improve the aesthetics of the site, I decided to remove “index.php” from URLs. For example, while visiting a normal SEF URL like http://www/salescrib.com/index.php/sales-crib-tour, I wanted my visitor to click on the “Tour” menu link, and it should be directed to http://www.salescrib.com/sales-crib-tour.

I have been trying to find a solution to the subject issue since 3-4 days but no success. I tried searching Google & your blogs, but all they answer is changing htaccess.txt to .htaccess and then enabling the URL Rewriting in Global Config. But that throw 404 ‘Page Not Found’ error.

I know I’m missing some petty tweek but for a mechanical engineer, it is a little hard to understand the sophiticated programming codes :)

What am I missing? Can someone please help?

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Saurabh Vashist • June 18, 2014

Voila!

Thanks @alexandre for your link to mod_rewrite article. I was missing the edit in my “/etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default.conf”

Now it works stupendously at http://www.salescrib.com/sales-crib-tour

Thanks for @jhoedram for your contribution.

Well this confirms that for all my queries I can start directly from DigitalOcean.com/community in place of reading those haunting pages on Google :p

alexandre • June 17, 2014

Is <code>mod_rewrite</code> active? Run <code>phpinfo()</code> and check it out! In <a href=“https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-up-mod_rewrite”>this article</a> you can find how to enable rewrite module in your server.

jhoedram • June 17, 2014

I have worked with joomla for a long time to remove the “index.php”, you must activate. htaccess located in the root of your website (principal), possibly as htaccess.txt have, for this case only rename the name. htaccess

I hope I could help