URL rewrite problem

[MarcusV]

Hi, i'm using joomla 1.6.3 (with 2 languages el-en). Does anyone know how to
remove index.php/el/ from the initial URL http://www.mydomain.com/index.php/el/
(only from the initial page url - i don't mind if it appears in the rest of the pages).

Activating the htaccess, as it is,hides only the index.php part and leaving it as www.mydomain.com/el Here is the code from htaccess:

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} base64_encode[^(]([^)]) [OR]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (<|%3C)([^s]s)+cript.(>|%3E) [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} GLOBALS(=|[|\%[0-9A-Z]{0,2}) [OR]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} _REQUEST(=|[|\%[0-9A-Z]{0,2})
RewriteRule .* index.php [F]

#RewriteBase /

RewriteRule .* - [E=HTTP_AUTHORIZATION:%{HTTP:Authorization}]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/index.php
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} /component/|(/[^.]*|.(php|html?|feed|pdf|vcf|raw))$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule .* index.php [L]

I'm having real problem with this issue.Any help would be appreciated

[Basil]

I don't know much about Joomla so I can't guarantee this will work, but you can try adding this:

RewriteRule ^$ /el

This only matches one pattern; an empty path.

example.com will redirect to example.com/el without updating the address in the browser.

If you want to match "index.php" as well you'll need to do something like this:

RewriteRule ^(index\.php)?$ /el