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Question

I have a Craft site where I need to redirect any traffic to www (including dev.lakesideohio.com). The rule seems to be working but for some reason the url gets changed to using index.php with query string which I am not using.

For example https://mysite.com/news goes to https://www.mysite.com/index.php?p=news/ instead of https://www.mysite.com/news.

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On

# Redirect to www
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.mysite\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://www.mysite.com/$1 [R=301,L] 

# Send would-be 404 requests to Craft
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/(favicon\.ico|apple-touch-icon.*\.png)$ [NC]
RewriteRule (.+) index.php?p=$1 [QSA,L]     

Answer 1

Check out: Removing “index.php” from URLs