How to Remove index.php From the Website URL in Magento?

How to Remove index.php From the Website URL in Magento?
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

 

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

 

  • 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.