Redirect index.php request to http://localhost/website/ using .htaccess

[ajnoguerra]

I’m not so familiar with configuring my .htaccess yet so please help me out.

I have a link that goes to the index.php but I don’t want index.php to appear in my url

eg.
http://localhost/website/index.php

I want it to be redirected to the root folder which is

http://localhost/website/

So i tried searching for answers and this is what I got so far.

RewriteEngine on

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^.*/index.php
RewriteRule ^(.*)index.php$ http://localhost/website/$1 [R=301,L]

Now when I try to click home in my local website, instead of redirecting me to

http://localhost/website

my url bar displays this –

http://localhost/Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/htdocs/website/localhost/website/

Can anyone explain what’s going on?

[__]

> I have a link that goes to the index.php but I don’t want index.php to appear in my url

THIS is the part you don’t understand. If you don’t want the link to show `…index.php` in the address bar, then change the link, not your server. In and of itself, this has absolutely nothing to do with mod_rewrite.

Take this

my link

…and replace it with this

my link

In most cases, you won’t need to do anything more – when given a path to a directory, Apache is typically already configured to look for a file named `index.php` (among others) and serve it if found.

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