Apache question, hiding a part of the url

[Niko Holopainen]

Greetings everyone,

does anyone know how to hide the /index.php/ part from the following url:

http://www.lomaosake.fi/index.php/fi...myytavana.html

The index.php is issued as a part of the publishing system and I would prefer if it can be hidden. It appears in all of our urls.

The reason for hiding it would be to shorten the urls as well as reduce the apparent redirections (e.g. http://www.lomaosake.fi/ goes to http://www.lomaosake.fi/index.php/)

If anyone would know the answer, I'd really appreciate it =)

Regards,

[speed]

mod_rewrite or mod_alias can be used to achieve this.

There is an article on mod_rewrite here, more can be found with a Google search.

There are 2 potential problems:

1. Your host may not support mod_rewrite or mod_alias

2. Your script may need to be modified to work properly.

[Niko Holopainen]

Thank you for your reply, I'm too unfamiliar with apache to do it myself so I sent it to the person who handles our apache matters.

We have our own server so modifications are allowed but I'm not sure if the scripts need to be modified...

Regards,