Remove 'index.php' from url without removing parameters in .htaccess

Question

I have a condition for url redirect like,

www.domain.com/something/anotherthing/index.php

i need the above url to redirect to

www.domain.com/something/anotherthing/

If i go to

www.domain.com/index.php/something/anotherthing

i want to redirect to

www.domain.com/something/anotherthing

i have a redirect htaccess rule for this

RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,}\s(.*)/index.php$1 [NC]

RewriteRule ^ /%1$1 [R=301,L]

But this works for the first condition but in the later it redirect me to the root page. Can anyone please help in this redirection.

Thanks in Advance.

Answer 1

Try something like this:

RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,}\s(.*)/index.php/?([^\ \?]*) [NC]
RewriteRule ^ %1/%2 [R=301,L]

That should handle any location of /index.php.