How to remove 'index.php' from browser URL while Joomla is hosted on IIS?

Question

I am working on Joomla 3.1 and my Joomla project is hosted on IIS server. I am facing problem that index.php is coming in my url while i enable SEO configuration. I have enable all necessary configuration from joomla back-end.

can you please help me to remove index.php ?

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

The tooltip in the Global Configuration says:

Rename web.config.txt to web.config and
install IIS URL Rewrite Module before activating.

Have you done both?

I just tried, and I also made sure that the htaccess.txt file is renamed to .htaccess and that there is no web.config.txt and just the web.config file and it worked. It didn't work before applying those changes, but I'm not sure that the htaccess file is relevant.