I need some HTACCESS help (Magento)

[netviper]

Hi Guys,

I need some help on this htaccess issue in Magneto.

So here is what I am trying to do:

I wanted to change mysite.com/index.php/etc to mysite.com/etc

so I turned on the web friend URLS.

That did that, BUT there are still two versions of every page on the site.

www.mysite.com/etc and mysite.com/index.php/etc

So that isn't good for SEO.

So then I applied a 301 matching redirect, RedirectMatch 301 /index.php/(.*) http://www.mysite.com/$1

That solved that problem.

But now I am not able to log into the admin.

It is mysite.com/index.php/pg45admin.  It should redirect to mysite.com/pg45admin but the page just hangs.... It goes into a continuous loop.

I tired using the custom URL and then the site crashed and I had to redo it.

So what do I need to do for this to work?

[ShaMenz]

Oh my goodness Dave,

I just saw your question and then noticed the date you posted!

Do you still need help with your question, or have you resolved the problem? (I really hope so)

If not, let us know.

Sha

[netviper]

Yes, that is what I am looking for.

[RyanKent]

In that case you need the couple lines of htaccess code to redirect any index.php page to it's equivalent. I am not a regex/htaccess pro and do not know the code for it off-hand.

[netviper]

Hi Ryan,

Thanks for the response, but I had already turned on web friendly URLs.  All that did was removed the index.php from the URL.  Both URL's stlll exist.

Before web friendly URL's it was like this:

mysite.com.index.php/etc/etc

after

mysite.com/etc/etc

Since both URL's exist, I just want to 301 redirect any index.php URL to the URL without it.

I have not found any plugin to do what I am looking to do.

[RyanKent]

I have no experience with Magneto, but I have always been able to configure friendly URLs on any system.

If I was in your situation I would do the following:

1. rename your htacess file to .htaccess.old (basically this is the same as deleting it but you would still retain a copy)

2. google "Magento friendly URLs" and follow the guides. I found a few:

http://kb.siteground.com/article/Enable_Friendly_URLs_in_Magento.html

At worst, there are a few plugins which do what you are after