title: how to remove index.php?route= in url using htacess
body: <p>i am facing problems in ingratiating payment gateway cc avenue.  i need to change the url without special charters</p>
  
  <p>my httaccess file is</p>
  
  <pre><code>RewriteBase /
  
  RewriteRule ^sitemap.xml$ index.php?route=feed/google_sitemap [L]
  
  RewriteRule ^googlebase.xml$ index.php?route=feed/google_base [L]
  
  RewriteRule ^download/(.*) /index.php?route=error/not_found [L]
  
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
  
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
  
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !.*\.(ico|gif|jpg|jpeg|png|js|css)
  
  RewriteRule ^([^?]*) index.php?_route_=$1 [L,QSA]
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>can any one can help me</p>