Removing question mark from php install (Expressionengine)

August 9, 2013 6.3k views
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Hi, I am using Expressionengine as a cms. I am trying to clean up my url's by removing the "index.php" file via htaccess. All is working well except that I cannot remove the question mark. So... This Works: http://192.241.163.168/index.php?/site/contact-us The Works: http://192.241.163.168/?/site/contact-us This Does Not: http://192.241.163.168/site/contact-us Could this be a setting in php? I have tried every variation I can think of in this htaccess file # BEGIN ExpressionEngine Rewrite RewriteEngine On # Removes index.php from ExpressionEngine URLs RewriteCond $1 !\.(gif|jpe?g|png)$ [NC] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?/$1 [L] # END ExpressionEngine Rewrite Thanks
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kamaln7 MOD August 10, 2013
Make sure you have AllowOverride All in your virtualhost file (in /etc/apache2/sites-enabled).
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lpage August 10, 2013
Thanks Kamal, I did that for the "www" directory. When I try it for the site directory I get an error that changing it back to none solves. Do you think it could it be a permissions error of some sort?
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kamaln7 MOD August 10, 2013
Change it back to All, and run the following commands: 

a2enmod rewrite

service apache2 restart


as root. Does that fix it?
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lpage August 12, 2013
both www and the site directory are set to AllowOverride All and I did as you suggested. Still requires a url like http://cmp-publishing.com/?/site/contact-us or I get a page not found error.
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kamaln7 MOD August 12, 2013
Try adding in this line at the top of your .htaccess file: 

AcceptPathInfo On
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lpage August 12, 2013
Unfortunately, still no change.
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kamaln7 MOD August 16, 2013
Hmm, weird. It could be a problem with Expressionengine. Try asking in their official forums:

http://ellislab.com/forums
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lpage August 17, 2013
[SOLVED] Well, after all that, turns out (as usual) that it was a simple error. The ServerName was not right in the Apache file. Once that was corrected, all works as expected.

Thanks Kamal Nasser for all the assistance. Appreciate all the help. Some of your suggestions probably insured that it worked once I DID find the issue, particularly the "AllowOverride All".
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kamaln7 MOD August 17, 2013
Sweet! Glad it's working now :]
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