How do I remove index.php from the URL in Magento

Question

How can i remove index.php from the URL in Magento.

For example the home page URL is: www.mydomain.com/index.php

I want to show

Answer 1

You can remove the index.php in the frontend URLs performing the following steps:

Go to the admin section of Magento.

In System -> Configuration -> Web -> Search Engines Optimizations, select YES.

Clear cache now see its work. if any case do notwork go to ftp

find the file in your root .htaccess

check this line it should be comment for example

RewriteBase/magento/

Replace with this code.

#RewriteBase /magento/