Laravel 4 htaccess Rewrite Rule with 301 - apache

Question

I have following problem:
my website is available by two domains:
www.user.tucana.uberspace.de
and
www.my-domain.de
how is it possible to create a valid 301 Redirect from
www.user.tucana.uberspace.de to www.my-domain.de ?
I mean, if a user enter my webseite via www.user.tucana.uberspace.de/actual/news I want that my htaccess will redirect to www.my-domain.de/actual/news ...
In my htacces I create this code:
Options -MultiViews
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^ index.php [L]
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !=www.my-domain.de
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.my-domain.de/$1 [R=301,L]
but the problem is ... if an user enter the site at www.user.tucana.uberspace.de/actual/news he will be redirect to www.my-domain.de/index.php/actual/news
This code will work, but not for the root URL:
Options -MultiViews
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !=www.my-domain.de [NC]
RewriteRule ^ http://www.my-domain.de%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L,NE]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^ index.php [L]
If I use the code above, the URL www.user.tucana.uberspace.de/actual/news change to www.my-domain.de/actual/news - this is right,
but if I type www.user.tucana.uberspace.de the URL will change to www.my-domain.de/index.php ... why :-( ?
So, how can I avoid the index.php in the url?

Answer 1

You can keep your rules like this:
Options -MultiViews
RewriteEngine On
# remove index.php
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} /index\.php [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*?)index\.php$ /$1 [L,R=302,NC,NE]
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.my-domain\.de$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^ http://www.my-domain.de%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L,NE]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^ index.php [L]
Also test it out in a new browser to avoid 301 caching.