For some reason, "/index.php/" is being appended to the SS <% base_tag %>, causing the base href, and hence all the URLs, to be funky, as below:

<base href="http://www.mysite.com/index.php/" />

For example,

http://www.mysite.com/about-us/ is http://www.mysite.com/index.php/about-us/

Obviously, there is no "index.php" folder or page on the site. I've seen this on a few other implementations I've done, and have never been able to figure it out. But since it varies from machine to machine, I have no choice but to think this is some sort of PHP or Apache configuration issue. I have mod_rewrite enabled. What is the issue here?

Thanks,
Garrett

A url like http://www.mysite.com/index.php/about-us/ would mean that mod_rewrite has not been detected or is not enabled. Could you post the content of your .htaccess file. Is this a new site or an existing site thats suddenly doing this?

Yes, it does seem like a mod_rewrite issue. I never changed my .htaccess file (I think it's pretty much canned SS), but I DID move from Wampserver to my default Apache/PHP install for serving the site(s) [it's happening on All the sites]. I'm running Apache 2.0.63 and PHP 5.2.5. Below is my .htaccess code:

### SILVERSTRIPE START ###
<Files *.ss>
Order deny,allow
Deny from all
Allow from 127.0.0.1
</Files>

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /horngroup-prod

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(\.gif$)|(\.jpg$)|(\.png$)|(\.css$)|(\.js$) 

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^(.*)$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule .* sapphire/main.php?url=%1&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]
</IfModule>
### SILVERSTRIPE END ###

I have attached my php.ini and httpd.conf files.

Thanks for your help,
Garrett

My solution to this problem was to add:

Director::setBaseURL('/');

to my config.

BEWARE, if moving your install to another directory, this must be updated, has caused me a large headache.

Sorry to revive an old thread but I wanted to post my solution as this has bugged me twice before, but this third time I could not fix it and had to settle for a workaround.

I could not simply set the base url to a forwardslash as my applications are developed in subfolders and then uploaded to a root directory on the server, I really did not want to compromise the convenience of this.

I simply added this to the main config.php to remove index.php from the baseURL all together.

Director::setBaseURL(str_replace("index.php/","",Director::baseURL())) ;

with godaddy hosting this happened to me several times, and i used.

Director::setBaseURL('/');

my problem was even worse as none of the Requirements were linked correctly.

If i remember correctly, also just removing the index.php file will also work on some hosts.

these solutions also helped with a failing fresh install of 3.1.2 on win-7-64 XAMPP, as per: http://www.silverstripe.org/installing-silverstripe/show/38051