index.php not always removed

Question

I have two weird scenarios concerning index.php in my url. For the most part, it is removed from the url. The two times when index.php reappears in the url is in form return. I'm using Freeform Pro.

My form code:

{exp:freeform:form  
   form_id="5"
   form:id="freeform"
   require_ip="yes" 
   prevent_duplicate_on="email"
   return="/template_group/template/review/%%entry_id%%"
}

My .htaccess code:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
  RewriteEngine on 
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/system [NC]
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
  RewriteRule ^(.+)/$ /$1 [R=301,L,QSA]
  #
  RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^(ACT=.*)$ [NC,OR]
  RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^(URL=.*)$ [NC,OR]
  RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^(CSS=.*)$ [NC]   
  RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php\?&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]  
  #
  RewriteCond $1 !^(images|assets|bootstrap|system|upd|themes|index\.php|admin\.php) [NC]
  RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php/$1 [L]
  #
  RewriteCond $1 !\.(gif|jpe?g|png)$ [NC]\
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f 
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d 
  RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php/$1 [L]
  #
  #------------------- index.php -------------------
  #strip index.php/* from the URL
  RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[^/]*/index\.php/ [NC]
  #RewriteRule ^index\.php/(.+) http://%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [R=301,L,QSA]
</IfModule>

I commented out the 2nd to last line of the .htaccess code recently because it was preventing FreeMember's "forgot password" code to work.

Any help would be appreciated as I'm not a pro with .htaccess (I know, ).

Thanks!

Peter T

Answer 1

It was ALL ME! I hate it when operator error is the case!

In my general preferences, the name of my sites homepage was set to index.php instead of /.

My bad! This was definitely an unnecessary post!

Answer 2

You have a lot going in there. To completely remove index.php for the entire site, try this:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
  RewriteEngine On

  # Removes index.php
  RewriteCond $1 !\.(gif|jpe?g|png)$ [NC]
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
  RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php/$1 [L]    
</IfModule>