Remove index.php from url and still be able to POST

Question

I am redirecting requests to index.php with .htaccess as follows:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} index\.php
RewriteRule ^(.*)index\.php$ /$1 [R=301,L]

It works fine but the problem is forms are not able to POST anymore.

How can I hide index.php from the url while still being able to POST forms.

Answer 1

the 301 redirect (really any redirect) will kill your post variables. Perhaps post to str_replace('index.php', '', $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']) or even simpler, when posting to self you can post to just ? which the browser will just interpret as self client side. It will add a ? to the url. or maybe $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] .