How to remove / hide index.php from url in yii framework (PHP)

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Just follow steps:

• Make sure that the hosting / your pc mod_rewrite module is active. if not actively try to activate in a way, open the httpd.conf file. You can check this in the phpinfo.php to find out.

Find line #LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so

and remove just '#'

• Create file .htaccess under directory protected/ or protected/www/ where app's index.php file is hosted and add following code snippet

RewriteEngine on

# if a directory or a file exists, use it directly
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

# otherwise forward it to index.php
RewriteRule . index.php

• Set main.php in your yii configuration, at component :

'urlManager' => array(
                'urlFormat'=>'path',

                'showScriptName'=>false,

                'caseSensitive'=>false,        

               ),

• Now just hits the your app Url.