Redirect and removing question mark on URL using htaccess

Question

When I access my site using www.example.com/blog it redirects to example.com/?/blog.

How can I remove the question mark, so that the redirection just goes to example.com/blog?

My current .htaccess file:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

# Removes index.php from ExpressionEngine URLs
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^GET.*index\.php [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/system/.* [NC]
RewriteRule (.*?)index\.php/*(.*) /$1$2 [R=301,NE,L]

# Directs all EE web requests through the site index file
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php?/$1 [L]

Answer 1

Notice that you are rewriting URL to: /index.php?/$1. After this rewrite is done, the server removes index.php from URI. Thereby generating that URL. Just remove the ? from above rewrite.

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