X5 defaulting blog url root as: https://mydomain.com/blog/? 
Author: Laurence Nicholson
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My blog root URL is defaulting to include a '?' wich I cannot remove. The resulting article URL has 'https://mydomain.com/blog/index.php?' and then the article title.
How can I remove the 'index.php?' from the URL?
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Hello. By default, this option is not available. That's how the program works.
Perhaps you will come across similar solutions. Add code to ".htaccess" file, but this can cause a lot of problems.
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/$1 [L]
Author
Thanks Aleksej,
I have come across those answers, but as you say, that normally throws out a lot of other things.
I was link sharing with a company, but they tell me the links are not accessible from their posts, so I wondered if they could be formatted without the 'index.php?' but if they are defaulted, I wull have to cancel my contract with the other company and not share the links.
Not sure where the problem lays, but as I can see the links and others can use that URL, I suspect it is with the other company and not a link fault (albeit an untidy link).
I prefer to use the SEF URL (without the question mark), but there's nothing wrong with addresses with a question mark either.
Author
SEF ?
What is this? Not come across it before. Can you expand a bit on this so I can see how it works?
Thanks
Laurence
SEF - Search Engine Friendly.
https://helpcenter.websitex5.com/en/post/251442 - SEF URL.
https://helpcenter.websitex5.com/index.php?page=251442 - non-SEF URL.
Read this:
https://www.siteground.com/kb/what_are_search_engine_friendly_urls_sef/
https://www.connectionmodel.com/blog/what-are-seo-friendly-urls-and-why-should-you-use-them
Note that search engines understand SEF and non-SEF URL.
Author
Thanks. That makes sense.
So the next question is how do I get my blog post URL to be SEF? It is auto-generated with the non-SEF URL.
Unfortunately, this cannot be done at the moment.
Author
Ok.
As this does interfere with web indexing, I might have to look at another product to create my sites with.
Thanks anyway.