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I have a url like this www.example.com/home/ and I cannot get rid of the home folder from the URL. The best I can do results in which causes the page to crash.

I've been working with the htaccess file and tried numerous variations. Seems like it should be a simple fix but I'm having no luck.

I'm open to non-htaccess based solutions.

You can view a copy of the htaccess at http://www.spikewebdesign.com.au/htaccess-example.html

Thank you.

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  • Can you clarify what you mean? Do you have an ExpressionEngine install in a sub-folder to your web root? Or is EE in a web root, but you can't get the .htaccess file to properly remove index.php? Can you post your .htaccess file... I'm pretty sure I know what your problem is...
    – jrothafer
    Aug 27, 2015 at 3:26
  • The install is in the web root. I have edited my post to include the htaccess code most of which I didn't write. The main goals were: - ensure the website always redirect to www - when the above redirect occurs, remove the /index.php?/ which appears in the query string - remove /home/ when it appears in the home page URL
    – benny05
    Aug 27, 2015 at 4:03
  • I'm not seeing your htaccess code in your question... could you make sure you saved the edit?
    – jrothafer
    Aug 27, 2015 at 4:09
  • Sorry, for some reason stack exhange is throwing an error when I add it. Says I don't have enough points to put in links despite no links being added. I've added a link to the code? This is not the website using the code though.
    – benny05
    Aug 27, 2015 at 4:11
  • It might be easier if you either change the file to a .txt extension or add <pre><code> around your content so it retains lines and wrapping. Having said that have you gone to Design > Template Manager > Home > Edit Group and checked "Make the index template in this group your site's home page?" This will make the index template the site homepage.
    – Justin Long
    Aug 27, 2015 at 11:08

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OOOOk... so did you try setting a default template group? If you set your default template group to "Home", the index template in their will be resolved at www.example.com as well as www.example.com/home.

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  • The default template group can be left out, yes. You can even access templates in that group, so www.example.com/foo would really load www.example.com/home/foo (provided that you did remove index.php from the URL).
    – Ingmar
    Dec 15, 2015 at 8:25

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