Example URL's:-
- www.domain.com/index.php?bob
- www.domain.com/index.php?jane
- www.domain.com/index.php?fred
Need rewriting like:-
- www.domain.com/bob
- www.domain.com/jane
- www.domain.com/fred
Have tried with many variations now but the closest I can get to is:-
- www.domain.com/?bob
- www.domain.com/?jane
- www.domain.com/?fred
The below in .htaccess achieves this...
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?$1 [L,QSA]
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,}s(.*)/index.php [NC]
RewriteRule ^ %1 [R=301,L]
Please could someone point out what I need to modify to bin the ? (question mark) in the URL?
Edit
Just noticed that since applying the answer given by anubhava below that robots.txt for example doesn't resolve to the .txt file but just displays the homepage.
.htaccess below:-
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} s/+index.php?([^s&]+) [NC]
RewriteRule ^ %1? [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^sitemap.xml$ index.php?route=feed/google_sitemap [L]
RewriteRule ^googlebase.xml$ index.php?route=feed/google_base [L]
RewriteRule ^download/(.*) /index.php?route=error/not_found [L]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www.
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [R=301,L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
#pos1
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/?$ index.php?$1 [L,QSA] <--
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !.*.(ico|gif|jpg|jpeg|png|js|css)
RewriteRule ^([^?]*) index.php?_route_=$1 [L,QSA]
#pos2
If I add the <-- line in pos1, the robots.txt URL returns a 404 page not found error.
If I add the <-- line in pos2, the robots.txt URL just displays the homepage.
Edit2
In the meantime, I have excluded robots.txt from rewrites by adding the following under Rewrite Base /:-
RewriteRule ^robots.txt - [L]
