Every ExpressionEngine page includes index.php
in the address such as http://localhost/index.php/about
or http://www.example.com/index.php/about.
Users of ExpressionEngine have mixed feelings regarding this. In general, websites with a lot of content almost always have URLs that are not easy to remember and type directly — often containing meaningless strings of characters and numbers that could be tracking any number of things. (Look at the URL next time you browse a Facebook photo album or an article on a news website). When compared to this, ExpressionEngine URLs are very user-friendly, even with the index.php.
Many users planning small websites want to keep their URLs user-friendly, so that people can type the page they want directly. In addition, some users feel that if the index.php
doesn't have to be visible in the URL, then it should be hidden. You can see that http://localhost/index.php
returns the same page as http://localhost/.
ExpressionEngine requires...