how to hide index.php from url on litespeed server

Question

url - example.com/index.php
want to hide /index.php
htaccess is enabled - some other rules work

RewriteEngine On 
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f 
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d 
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php/$1 [L]

doesn't work. index.php is still there
maybe because my server is litespeed and not apache
any help

Could you please show your full htaccess file that will give us better understanding of question, thank you. — RavinderSingh13, Apr 02 '21 at 10:35
@RavinderSingh13 - the above code is all I have inside `.htaccess` file — qadenza, Apr 02 '21 at 10:39
Ok so when you hit url `example.com/index.php` you want it to be like `example.com/` which should be served by index.pho in backend? Please confirm if my understanding is right here. — RavinderSingh13, Apr 02 '21 at 10:40
@RavinderSingh13 - yes, that's it - but without ending slash — qadenza, Apr 02 '21 at 10:46

RavinderSingh13 · Accepted Answer · 2021-04-02T10:57:02.710

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Based on your shown samples, please try following.

Use either code:

RewriteEngine ON
RewriteRule ^index\.php/?$ http://%{HTTP_HOST}/ [NC,R=301]
RewriteRule ^/?$ index.php [L]

OR with THE_REQUEST variable try:

RewriteEngine ON
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} \sindex\.php\s [NC]
RewriteRule ^ http://%{HTTP_HOST}/ [NC,R=301]
RewriteRule ^/?$ index.php [L]

edited Apr 02 '21 at 10:57

answered Apr 02 '21 at 10:49

RavinderSingh13

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it works, thanks a lot. could you give me some explanation, pls. Or a reference page where I could understand this code – qadenza Apr 02 '21 at 10:53
@qadenza, IMHO you could try updated code once, this should work for you too. – RavinderSingh13 Apr 02 '21 at 10:53
@qadenza, For reference I usually prefer documentation link https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/ which is having detailed level of knowledge, please do let me know in case of any queries here, cheers. – RavinderSingh13 Apr 02 '21 at 10:54
now it doesn't work. Your previous code works – qadenza Apr 02 '21 at 10:55
@qadenza, sure, I have added both for me now, since both worked for me, cheers. – RavinderSingh13 Apr 02 '21 at 10:57

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