How to remove index.php with .htaccess - .htaccess

Question

I used next .htaccess code:
RewriteEngine on
# if the requested path and file doesn't directly match a physical file
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
# and the requested path and file doesn't directly match a physical folder
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
# internally rewrite the request to the index.php script
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/$1 [L]
It work nice, but it's available all pages with index.php and without it, for example:
http://localhost/framework/about
http://localhost/framework/index.php/about // need redirect to http://localhost/framework/about
I want to redirect all request with index.php to without index.php with SEO reasons, How can I remove index.php?

Answer 1

Try this
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,}\s/([^/]+)/index\.php/(.+)\s [NC]
RewriteRule ^.*$ /%1/%2 [R=301,L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/$1 [L]
%{THE_REQUEST} contains the full HTTP request line sent by the
browser to the server (e.g., GET /index.html HTTP/1.1)
The condition RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,}\s/([^/]+)/index\.php/(.+)\s
[NC] matches something like GET /xxx/index.php/yyyy where xxx would be framework and yyy would be about/something/what/you/want or just about if you
want (could be also POST or another instead of GET but it does not really matter here).
Example: /framework/index.php/everything/about/me will be redirected to /framework/everything/about/me or /framework/index.php/about will be redirected to /framework/about

Answer 2

Pretty sure the following will redirect everything to the $_SERVER['PATH_INFO'] var in index.php
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !.index.ph.*
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php
It has been a while since I've used this method.
Alternatively you can use ForceType like this:
<Files *>
ForceType application/x-httpd-php
</Files>
<Files *\.*>
ForceType None
</Files>
This will allow you to have a PHP file called about (no extension) and have it executed as PHP.