Ok txz Simon,

Is renaming the index.php a real solution or should I contact my host? In other words can it cause any problems using a different name for the index.php.

The index.php is only provided as a fallback for cases when mod_rewrite isn't enabled.

Deleting it is safe, along with install.php, once you've successfully installed SilverStripe.

Cheers,
Sean

Hi

I had this problem with a site - all the links based off / but on the homepage, inexplicably, the links were based off /index.php.

Rather than deleting files or hacking core code - I added this to _config.php:

<code>
Director::setBaseURL('/');
</code>

Which fixes the issue (for me) as it overrides the internal base url handler and forces it to use / - obviously when you force stuff it may not work in edge cases.

Thanks!

Thanks civkati
that solved my problem :)
as well this fixed an issue I had with debuggin in my IDE, where I needed to specifiy a start page for loading the site in debug mode. The only page I could specify to use for this was index.php, but linking to it directly cause all of the path errors I listed earlier. So this has made it so that I can now run local debuggin in my IDE :)