How to remove index.php from URLs

Abdul

Hi Mad, thanks for creating Automad. I really like it. I have setup a website with Automad. However, I can’t remove index.php from the URLs. For example: www.example.com/index.php/article. I am running the site on LiteSpeed server. I have tried to remove it using .htaccess method but it does not work. The site is fine when running locally on MAMP. Can you please help me? thanks! 😃

mad

Abdul Hi, happy to hear you like it. As far as I know LiteSpeed is an alternative to Apache and doesn’t support .htaccess files at all. But I’m sure it supports a way of rewriting URLs. But maybe you know better how to do that. Basically you can pass a requested URL with the query string. There is an example in the docs for configuring Nginx servers. Maybe that helps to define a rewrite rule. So the best would be to rewrite a request as follows:

domain.com/page > domain.com/index.php?/page

If that is working fine, you can enable rewriting for your site in the config/config.json file by adding the following line:

"AM_INDEX": ""

Hope that helps a bit.