apache - Rewrite URL to index.php but avoid index.php in the URL

Question

I'm trying to internally redirect all requests to index.php and externally redirect all requests that contain index.php using a .htaccess file.

So URLs like http://host/test should be processed by index.php and URLs like http://host/index.php/test should be redirected to http://host/test and then processed by index.php (without redirecting the browser to index.php)

I tried the following but always get a message "Too many redirects...":

RewriteRule ^index.php/?(.*)$ /$1 [R,L]
RewriteRule .* index.php/$0 [L]

Answer 1

You need to look at the URL in the request line to see if /index.php/… has been requested:

RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^GET /index.php/?([^ ]*)
RewriteRule ^index.php/?(.*) /$1 [R,L]
RewriteCond $0 !^index.php($|/)
RewriteRule .* index.php/$0 [L]