Wordpress remove php from url

I have a problem with index.php in my WordPress website. This problem is arriving since I have changed and migrated my WordPress database from WordPress to mydatabase. I have also changed my table prefix name.

Now problem is that, I am unable to see my pages and posts without index.php.

http://example.com/index.php/postname/

I have tried the following solutions:

1. Change permalinks setting (nothing changed).

2. Change rewrite module with .htaccess file (nothing changed).

3. Enable rewrite module in my apache2 server (nothing happened).

4. Deleted value of rewrite_module of wp_options table for cache purpose (nothing happened).

5. If i set permalink for %postname%

e. g. http://example.com/postname/

Then i get 404 error.

My .htaccess code is:

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress

Please anybody provide me correct solution. How to get rid of index.php?

Armali

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asked Sep 17, 2015 at 11:20

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Go to your WP-ADMIN-->Settings-->Permalink and use the permalink structure change there, if it generate any .htaccess file copy the content and update your .htaccess file.

Or Check if your hosting mod_rewrite is enable by creating a file phpinfo.php with content,

<?php phpinfo();?>

Upload this file and browse via Browser. So you know which modules are enabled. You need mod_rewrite enable to remove index.php from URL.

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answered Sep 17, 2015 at 11:57

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By default, Apache adds .php to URL for PHP files. Here’s how to remove .php from URL in Apache. You can use these steps to remove .php from URL in WordPress, Magento, Drupal, Joomla and other CMS systems. You can also use it to remove index.php from URLs.

Remove .php extension from URL

Before proceeding further, you need to enable mod_rewrite in Apache web server. Here are the steps to enable mod_rewrite (.htaccess) in Apache web server.

1. Open htaccess file

Open terminal and run the following command to open .htaccess file. Please change the file path to .htaccess file as per your requirement.

$ sudo vi /var/www/html/.htaccess

2. Remove .php extension from URL

Add the following lines to redirect all URLs with .php extension to URLs without file extension.

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}\.php -f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1.php [NC,L] 

In the above code, the first line checks that the request is a URL and not a directory. The second line redirect matching URLs with .php extension to those without file extension. The last line redirects matching requests to URLs without php file extension.

Similarly, you may also add the following code to remove .html extension from URL.

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d 
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}\.html -f 
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1.html [NC,L]

3. Restart Apache web server

Restart Apache server with following command

$ sudo systemctl restart httpd

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