Use URL Rewriting with language code
Hi Guys,
I need your help setting my htaccess url rewriting correctly, I built international joomla website and it works fine but I want to remove index.php from the url I searched a lot and read many articles regarding removing index.php from the url but no luck.
Without enabling URL Rewriting the url looks like:
http://www.my-site.com/index.php/en/
http://www.my-site.com/index.php/ar/
I want it to look like;
http://www.my-site.com/index.php/en/
http://www.my-site.com/index.php/ar/
Below the steps I did:
First, I enabled Mod_Rewrites: sudo a2enmod rewrite
Second, Set Use URL Rewriting to yes in joomla global configuration
Last, I renamed htaccess.txt to .htaccess
When I did that the site crashed and the browser showed The requested URL /en/ was not found on this server.
I built the site under a virtual host /home/bashar/www/MainSite/
.htaccess code:
IndexIgnore *
Options +FollowSymlinks
Options -Indexes
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} base64_encode[^(]*\([^)]*\) [OR]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (<|%3C)([^s]*s)+cript.*(>|%3E) [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} GLOBALS(=|\[|\%[0-9A-Z]{0,2}) [OR]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} _REQUEST(=|\[|\%[0-9A-Z]{0,2})
RewriteRule .* index.php [F]
RewriteBase /MainSite/
RewriteRule .* - [E=HTTP_AUTHORIZATION:%{HTTP:Authorization}]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/index\.php
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule .* index.php [L]
Please Advice,