Symfony - app.php required in URL - php

Question

I recently deployed a symfony project and noticed that the only way I can currently access the project is using the following URL:
http://domain.com/app.php/index
I was wondering if there is a way to automatically get the app.php to be served without actually including it in the URL.
Something like:
http://domain.com/index
Not sure if htaccess is required for this or if this is something that can be accomplished directly using Symfony.
This is what my htaccess currently looks like:
DirectoryIndex app.php
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /app.php/ [QSA,L]
</IfModule>
I appreciate any advice, thanks in advance!

Answer 1

This is (effectively) the .htaccess file which I use on several projects and sites using Symfony 2:
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ app.php [QSA,L]
</IfModule>
I also have the following vhost entry for one of my Symfony projects under the apache server:
<VirtualHost *>
ServerAdmin admin#localhost
DocumentRoot "<PATH_TO_PROJECT>/web"
ServerName localhost
ServerAlias localhost
ErrorLog "<PATH_TO_PROJECT>/app/logs/apache_error.log"
ErrorLogFormat "[%t] [%l] [pid %P] thread-%T %F: %E: [client %a] %M"
<Directory "<PATH_TO_PROJECT>/web">
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes ExecCGI
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
Require all granted
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
The omission of the DirectoryIndex app.php index may be enough in the .htaccess file, so you could try that. Admittedly my knowledge of Apache configuration is weaker than I would like it to be, hopefully this helps, if not--hopefully some one out there can give you a better, stronger answer?
Best of luck!