Magento 1.9.3 SSL added just work with /index.php pages in frontend

Question

I recently installed an SSL certificate on my test server and I got a problem with my front end. All the web pages return 404 if I don't put /index.php/.

I put Use Web Server Rewrites as No and Use Secure URLs in Frontend as Yes but nothing works.

Please help..

Answer 1

As @Meetanshi said, make sure you have mod_rewrite enabled on the server or not. mod_rewrite should be enabled to allow URLs without index.php.

To check whether it is enabled or not, do one of the following:

Method 1: Create a file (say: info.php) in the document root and paste below code:

<?php
phpinfo();
?>

Now hit the URL yourwebsiteurl/info.php and check for mod_rewrite under Loaded Modules section. If it does not exist, it means that server does not have mod_rewrite (URL rewrites) enabled.

Method 2: Write anything wrong in the .htaccess file under document root and reload the website.

If mod_rewrite is enabled, then you should get Internal Server Error. If it does not happen, you must enable mod_rewrite on the server.

To know how to enable mod_rewrite, you can check instructions here.

Please let me know if it helped.