Pretty URLs without index.php?

[mark_l_sanders]

I get reasonably 'pretty' urls, but each has the definitely unpretty 'index.php' in view. Is it possible to lose this?
My template does, fwiw, include the {metadata} tag in the head.
cheers
mark

[Dr.CSS]

http://wiki.cmsmadesimple.org/index.php ... retty_URLs

[mark_l_sanders]

Thanks for that. I now get prettier urls along the lines of: http://www.stjohnsjfc.co.uk//Photo_Gallery/.
Not bad, but notice the double forward slash afterthe root domain. Can I lose that?
mark

[Dr.CSS]

Think it's in the config.php like...

#If using none of the above options, what should we be using for the query string
#variable?  (ex. http://www.mysite.com/index.php?page=somecontent)
$config['query_var'] = 'page';  this may be a /