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I have centos server, I want to see my websile url along with /index.php in the address bar.
When I'm trying to access my website www.example.com, I want to see the url of the webpage should be www.example.com/index.php in the address bar.
I hope it will work by configuring .htaccess file. I'm not familiar with .htaccess.
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RewriteRule ^$ /index.php [L,R=301]
If index.php is in the DirectoryIndex list, you're doing a needless redirect/rewrite.