I know this can be done using a combination of stubfile and .htaccess but in an existing blog linked to by other sites and social-bookmarks, changing of the URL will kill all links pointing to an article, which is well, not a very good idea.

So I am thinking of using .htaccess or any other method to remove the "index.php" part of b2evolution,

anyone knows how to do it or perhaps did it?

In the other sites I checked, this piece of .htaccess code works:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^/(.*)$ /index.php/$1 [L,QSA]

But when used with b2e, it still will show index.php, or the code above lacks other pieces??

Thank you very much.