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#8936 – unable to consistently remove index.php on Joomla 4 sites

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Thursday, 28 July 2022 18:30 UTC

lesc

Hello,
I'm not sure if I can receive help for the issue I'm experiencing. The problem is not related to a Weeblr extension but I thought I'd inquire here with the hope that I may be pointed in the right direction.

I have 2 Joomla 4 sites. On one I've successfully removed "index.php" from URLs. An example is https://j4cms.mwvdev.info/contact-us.html. On another site, https://townofstewiacke.mwvdev.info/index.php, I'm unable to remove "index.php". I would prefer, for example, to have https://townofstewiacke.mwvdev.info/explore.html instead of https://townofstewiacke.mwvdev.info/index.php/explore.html.

On townofstewiacke.mwvdev.info when I set "Use URL Rewriting" to Yes under SEO in the Site tab of Global Configuration I either get a white "Not Found" page or a PHP error message "Sorry, your PHP version is not supported". The error message is dependent on what is in the .htaccess file.

The same setting is set to Yes on j4cms.mwvdev.info without an issue. Both sites are hosted on the same server.

I'd like to mention the same .htaccess file is in the root folder of both sites when there is the PHP error screen for townofstewiacke.mwvdev.info. Is this possibly a server-side issue?

At some point PHP on the server is going to be updated. This may solve the problem. What I'm wondering is why both Joomla 4 sites behave differently.

Can this problem be solved by 4SEF when it becomes available? Just wondering, is 4SEF expected to be released before October 2022?

Thank you,
Les

Friday, 29 July 2022 07:22 UTC

wb_weeblr

Hi Les,

Can this problem be solved by 4SEF when it becomes available?

No, this is a server issue, namely the content of you .htaccess. You have not said what you are adding to your .htaccess in each case but my best advice here is to ask your hosting company. They set up the webserver, they'll know what to add or not to add to the .htaccess.

The fact results are not the same on different sites is usually explained by the rest of your .htaccess content, which may differ from site to site.

I would recommend backing up your current .htaccess, then copying the Joomla-provided htaccess.txt file to .htaccess. It should work in most cases, and it has a minimal content suitable for most sites.

At some point PHP on the server is going to be updated. This may solve the problem. What I'm wondering is why both Joomla 4 sites behave differently.

PHP is not involved here, even if you get a fancy error message at some point. This would actually point at your .htaccess containing extra rules (maybe required by your hosting), likely causing the problem.

Best regards

Yannick Gaultier

weeblr.com / @weeblr

Monday, 29 August 2022 05:34 UTC

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