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Today, i we will show you laravel remove index.php from url. This article will give you simple example of laravel remove index.php from url. you will learn laravel remove index.php from url.

In this artical i will show you laravel remove index.php from url. We can use this example in Laravel 6, Laravel 7, Laravel 8. So let’s follow few step to create example of laravel remove index.php from url.

app/Providers/RouteServiceProvider.php

<?php
  
namespace App\Providers;
  
use Illuminate\Cache\RateLimiting\Limit;
use Illuminate\Foundation\Support\Providers\RouteServiceProvider as ServiceProvider;
use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\RateLimiter;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Route;
use Illuminate\Support\Str;
  
class RouteServiceProvider extends ServiceProvider
{
    /**
     * The path to the "home" route for your application.
     *
     * This is used by Laravel authentication to redirect users after login.
     *
     * @var string
     */
    public const HOME = '/home';
  
    /**
     * Define your route model bindings, pattern filters, etc.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function boot()
    {
        $this->removeIndexPHPFromURL();
  
        $this->configureRateLimiting();
  
        $this->routes(function () {
            Route::prefix('api')
                ->middleware('api')
                ->namespace($this->namespace)
                ->group(base_path('routes/api.php'));
 
            Route::middleware('web')
                ->namespace($this->namespace)
                ->group(base_path('routes/web.php'));
        });
    }
  
    /**
     * Write code on Method
     *
     * @return response()
     */
    protected function removeIndexPHPFromURL()
    {
        if (Str::contains(request()->getRequestUri(), '/index.php/')) {
            $url = str_replace('index.php/', '', request()->getRequestUri());
  
            if (strlen($url) > 0) {
                header("Location: $url", true, 301);
                exit;
            }
        }
    }
  
    /**
     * Configure the rate limiters for the application.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    protected function configureRateLimiting()
    {
        RateLimiter::for('api', function (Request $request) {
            return Limit::perMinute(60)->by(optional($request->user())->id ?: $request->ip());
        });
    }
}

now if you open url like bellow then:

https://example.com/index.php/contact-us

will redirect to:

https://example.com/contact-us

I hope it can help you…