Remove question mark in URL with “Force URL query strings” enabled

Question

in one of my sites I had to enable "Force URL query strings" because my hosting provider doesn't have "URL Segment Support" enabled.

I don't have the permissions to change Apache configuration file directly.

To remove index.php I have this .htaccess

AcceptPathInfo On
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
   RewriteEngine On
   RewriteBase /

   # Removes index.php from ExpressionEngine URLs
   RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^GET.*index\.php [NC]
   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/system/.* [NC]
   RewriteRule (.*?)index\.php/*(.*) /$1$2 [R=301,NE,L]

   # Directs all EE web requests through the site index file
   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
   RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php?/$1 [L]
</IfModule>

Now the pages are something like

www.example.com/?/page

Is there a way to remove the question mark through .htaccess or should I ask to my hosting provider to enable URL Segment Support?

Thanks

Answer 1

I had a similar issue to this previously. Removing the "?" in the last RewriteRule solved the issue.

Change in your .htaccess file:

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php?/$1 [L]

To:

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php/$1 [L]

Hope this helps you as much as it did me.