Remove index.php from the URL

[smknstd]

https://thewebtier.com/remove-index-php-from-the-url-in-laravel

Do you think the laravel framework should handle this ?

ex:
https://spatie.be/index.php/products
https://forge.laravel.com/index.php
https://beyondco.de/index.php/software

[henzeb]

Request unclear. You mean: "redirect to the route without the index.php if that is in the url"?

[smknstd]

Yes, as explained in the blog post, search engines like google when crawling a Laravel website throws exception (in the search console) and report those urls as duplicated.

[henzeb]

Yes, but you should explain it here.... "do you think that laravel framework should handle this" is being lazy.

[smknstd]

Here is a given route in a Laravel website:

https://thewebtier.com/articles

However it seems that the following url will also work:

https://thewebtier.com/index.php/articles

This situation can cause that competition could create urls for those unwanted urls with index.php and search engines will see duplicated urls for our whole website and finally we don't know which urls will be displayed in search engines (those without index.php or those with it).

ex:

[smknstd]

This has been already discussed here, but Apparently there is still no mention at all in the docs or something: #30398