How do i get rid of the Index.php?

[chantown]

Let's say i have my hyperlink to index.php, but when people click on it, i just want them to see the "domain.com", not "domain.com/index.php"

 

is there anyway to get rid of it?

[redarrow]

need to setup apache properly or use .htaccess

 

by defualt in the htdocs a index.php file shouldnt be showing as youve said.......

 

 

[chantown]

well, i have a link to index.php, so by default when people click it , it SHOULD show, right?

[freebsdntu]

I guess you just need to configure your apache,then it will be fine

[eRott]

What he means (i think) is not the directory listing. He is referring to the URL.

 

Currently, my URL bar shows:

http://www.phpfreaks.com/forums/index.php?action=post;topic=173395.0;num_replies=3

 

What the OP was looking for is how to hide everything after his TLD, so while the user is still navigating the page:

http://www.phpfreaks.com/forums/index.php?action=post;topic=173395.0;num_replies=3

 

It would only look like:

http://www.phpfreaks.com/

 

And to answer your question. I have no idea.

 

Take care.

[redarrow]

rewrite_url

 

http://www.sitepoint.com/article/guide-url-rewriting

[juapo2]

I think you should just use "Cloaking" for your domain, and it will instead of show eg. www.mydomain.com/index.php,  it will show www.mydomain.com.

 

But even though it is very good, but i has some bad things of using it, if you have different titles in each page, you will have just a static one for all the pages.

 

So good Luck, try doing what i told ya

[chantown]

i'm gonna take a look at mod rewrite

 

but it's not a big deal right?

 

(i just thought that most mainstream websites dont show the index.php)

[eRott]

On the contrary, I think most do not cloak or mask the URL's. I wouldn't be too concerned with it if i were you.

[thebadbad]

Oh my, this is so simple. Just link to "/" (the root). It should run the index.php by default.

 

<a href="/">To the frontpage</a>

[eRott]

thebadbad,

 

If you read the origional post and the ones after it, you would have realized, what you wrote was not what the OP was looking for. It had nothing to to with adding a hyperlink VIA HTML to his website.

[corbin]

You could use a giant frame..... But that would be kinda.... bleh.

[anon]

Having your URL only being your domain is not a good idea. Why not just configure .htaccess to make /index.php the home page?

[ohdang888]

why waste the time?

[Xyphon]

Insted of going

<a href='index.php'> Blah</a>

Do this

<a href='http://www.yourdomain.com'> Blah</a> 

That will send a direct link you your index, but wont have /index.php at the end.

[thebadbad]

thebadbad,

 

If you read the origional post and the ones after it, you would have realized, what you wrote was not what the OP was looking for. It had nothing to to with adding a hyperlink VIA HTML to his website.

 

I read them, thank you. After reading his second post it still seems like I was perfectly on the point? Although it's unclear if he wants /index.php to redirect to /. Let's wait for his answer

 

(i just thought that most mainstream websites dont show the index.php)

 

That's because they never visually link to it. Instead link to the root "/" as I suggested. Apache will default to index.php, without showing the index.php in the browser's location bar. If you want to achieve something different, please elaborate.

[juapo2]

Yes, you can instead of hoing into the index.php,

 

write on your browser:

http://www.mydomain.com

 

This will take to

http://www.mydomain.com/index.php

 

Try it man

[tbare]

what if u make the link 'http://www.domain.com' instead of 'index.php'... should do what u want..??

[MasterACE14]

(i just thought that most mainstream websites dont show the index.php)

 

This isn't particularly true, Google, PHP Freaks, Youtube.... they do tend to hide the actual page you are on, but they dont hide the GET variables and what not after the domain name.

 

One of the main reasons for just showing your domain name instead of the full URL is to hide URL's that contain GET variables in them which can be bookmarked and reused later. For example, say someone made a website with a login form which uses a GET( EXTREMELY bad thing to do) and you happened to be behind someone at a internet cafe who is login into the website. They get up for a moment and ask for help at the counter. Then you quickly jump onto the PC, save the current URL to favourites. They come back, they stay for 20 mins then leave, you  jump onto that PC and go to favourites and load the URL. and alakazam, your logged into there account.

 

This is a REALLY UNLIKELY TO HAPPEN, but hey, anything is possible.

 

I just had to explain what the whole point of hiding a URL is for lol 

 

Note: that is only one reason/example to hide the URL.

 

Regards ACE

[chantown]

thank you all,

 

after some thinking, i realize that this isn't even a big problem.  Who cares if i show index.php? haha

 

but yes what i was trying to get at was just <a href="/">Link</a>

 

That does work, i believe, just didnt thought it would

 

thanks all