Apache rewrite - How do I include index.php using Joomla?

Hi basically my joomla site decided to throw a wobbler yesterday, I was getting a 404 page from nowhere.

I was told that to fix the error I had to use apache rewrite and change a folder to .htaccess then select the option in joomla config.

It fixed the problem but the url has changed slightly, now all indexed urls are different. With it being a news site this is a problem.

For example its gone from:

http://www.release-news.com/index.p...work-introduced-could-it-be-the-next-facebook

to


http://www.release-news.com/society...work-introduced-could-it-be-the-next-facebook

Basically i want to know how i can make it rewrite but with the /index.php in the URL

Thanks

 

Yeah you should be able to do this...

First off, unless you change the "index" page in the htaccess file you do not need to reference an index.php file. No matter what directory you use the index.php or index.html file is the default. For instance, if you type in

www.mysite.com

the apache/iis should automatically point to www.mysite.com/index.php or www.mysite.com/index.html. This also works for subdirectories:

www.mysite.com/news/ will automatically point to www.mysite.com/news/index.php

Second, I am not exactly sure what your directory structure is by your post. If you want the index.php in the url then in the rewrite rule you would include it:

RewriteRule ^index\.php/([A-Za-z0-9-\.]+)$ yoururl.php?myid=$1 [L]

I think this should work and I will try my best to explain it. Basically, you are telling the rewrite engine to look for the address www.mysite.com/index.php/title-of-my-page and rewrite that to www.mysite.com/index.php/yoururl.php?myid=title-of-my-page

Is this what you were looking for?

 

Actually I might have mistyped this, try:

RewriteRule ^index\.php/([A-Za-z0-9-\.]+)/?$ yoururl.php?myid=$1 [L]