How to remove index.php from the website URL in magento?

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Albert George
Oct 15, 2019

There is an easy way to remove index.php from your website url only in case the mod_rewrite module is enabled on your server. To check this, you may contact your server administrator/hosting provider. Now please check the below steps to remove index.php from your website url: Login to your admin panel:
  • Click the System->Configuration tab
    • magento

  • On the appeared screen click "Web" tab under "General" on the left-hand side of your admin panel. You will see the below screen:

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  • Now open the Search Engines Optimization tab and set the Use Web Server Rewrites to "Yes"
  • Now open secure tab set "Yes" to Use Secure URL in Frontend
  • Click on Save Confif which is at the top right of the page.
  • Now there is need to create an .htaccess file with the rewrite directives in the root folder of your Magento installation.
  • Tis can be done through control panel File Manager or FTP to create a file
Put the below code into your .htaccess file 

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]

In case your Magento is installed in sub-folder, e.g. store (just a naae of sub-folder), you should use the below code: 


RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /shop/
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /shop/index.php [L]
Save and upload the file. Now check index.php is successfully removed in your website URL. That's it.