Hello Developers,

This tutorial will show you how to remove index.php from the URL. This thing will be helpful in making your website more secure. To do that follow my steps.

You have to add some custom code in the RouteServiceProvider file in Laravel. 

app/Providers/RouteServiceProvider

<?php

namespace App\Providers;

use Illuminate\Support\Str;
use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Route;
use Illuminate\Cache\RateLimiting\Limit;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\RateLimiter;
use Illuminate\Foundation\Support\Providers\RouteServiceProvider as ServiceProvider;

class RouteServiceProvider extends ServiceProvider
{

    public const HOME = '/home';


    public function boot()
    {
        $this->configureRateLimiting();
        $this->removeIndexFromUrl();

        $this->routes(function () {
            Route::prefix('api')
                ->middleware('api')
                ->namespace($this->namespace)
                ->group(base_path('routes/api.php'));

            Route::middleware('web')
                ->namespace($this->namespace)
                ->group(base_path('routes/web.php'));
        });
    }


    protected function configureRateLimiting()
    {
        RateLimiter::for('api', function (Request $request) {
            return Limit::perMinute(60)->by(optional($request->user())->id ?: $request->ip());
        });
    }


    protected function removeIndexFromUrl()
    {
        if (Str::contains(request()->getRequestUri(), '/index.php/')) {
            $url = str_replace('index.php/', '', request()->getRequestUri());

            if (strlen($url) > 0) {
                header("Location: $url", true, 301);
                exit;
            }
        }
    }
}

I hope this might help you in the journey of development.

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