title: How to remove index.php from URLs?
body: <p>All of my URLs on my Magento installation require index.php in them, like:</p>
  
  <pre><code>http://example.com/index.php/admin/
  http://example.com/index.php/customer/account/login/
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>The problem is that the system by default links to URLs like</p>
  
  <pre><code>http://example.com/admin/
  http://example.com/customer/account/login/
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Which look prettier anyway. I assume this is a rewrite issue in .htaccess, but as tinkering with that in the past has given me 500s, I'd like to ask you guys first.</p>
  
  <p>Changing the SEO settings, flushing the configuration cache, and reindexing URLs did not work <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8451238/magento-htaccess-removal-of-index-php-from-store-urls">as suggested here</a>.</p>