[SOLVED] WordPress Rest API – how to remove index.php from the base path

  • Resolved ugoclemente

    (@ugoclemente)


    3 years, 6 months ago

    Hi,
    I am working at the test version of my website, test.my-site.com and I noticed that I couldn’t publish my posts, neither update em.

    When I tried to publish a post, an error message appeared: “Publishing failed. The response is not a valid JSON response.”.

    I noticed that if I tried to reach the URL https://test.my-site.com/wp-json I had a 404 error page.

    So I tried to reach https://test.my-site.com/index.php/wp-json and it worked.

    I temporarely solved the problem by setting the permalinks of the site (WP Panel > Settings > Permalinks > Custom structure) this way: /index.php/%postname%/.

    But now I would like to set the permalinks back to “Post name”.

    Is there any way to remove “index.php” from the base path of WordPress Rest API, in order to use the simple “https://test.my-site.com/wp-json” path?

    Where can I find the configuration file of WordPress Rest Api?

    Thank you very much.

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  • Thread Starter ugoclemente

    (@ugoclemente)

    [SOLVED] I found a solution here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/67133365/how-to-get-rid-of-index-php-in-url-with-wordpress-rest-api

    Here is the procedure:

    1. edit the apache2 config file
    nano /etc/apache2/apache2.conf

    2. ensure the following rows are set this way

    <Directory #Wordpress directory here#>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All #allows .htaccess directives in the next step
Require all granted
</Directory>

    3. edit the .htaccess file
    nano /var/www/test.my-site.com/.htaccess

    2. ensure the following rows are set this way

    RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule (.+) index.php/$1 [L]

    Thank you anyway. Have a nice day!

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