In this Laravel PHP tutorial, I will let you know how to remove index.php from the URL.
Having index.php in the URL is not good for the SEO practice.
You can also use .htaccess file to remove the index.php from the URL with 301 redirection but for this example, I will create a custom middleware.
In this step, I will run PHP artisan command to create middleware :
php artisan make:middleware RemoveIndexPhp
After running above command, you will have a middleware file in following directory app/Http/Middleware/.
Now open "RemoveIndexPhp.php" file and update that with below code :
<?php namespace App\Http\Middleware; use Closure; class RemoveIndexPhp { public function handle($request, Closure $next) { $searchFor = "index.php"; $strPosition = strpos($request->fullUrl(), $searchFor); if ($strPosition !== false) { $url = substr($request->fullUrl(), $strPosition + strlen($searchFor)); return redirect(config('app.url') . $url, 301); } return $next($request); } }
Now register this middleware as routeMiddleware in the Kernel.php file.
app/Http/Kernel.php :
protected $routeMiddleware = [
....
'RemoveIndexPhp' => \App\Http\Middleware\RemoveIndexPhp::class,
];
Add route
To test this example, I need to add a single route inside the group middleware :
Route::group(array('middleware' => ['RemoveIndexPhp']), function ()
{
Route::get('/',function(){
return "Welcome to ExpertPHP.in";
});
});
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