How to remove index.php from magento URL

There are the following steps

step 1: Goto to your site root folder and you can find the htaccess file there.Open it on text editor and find the line #Rewrite Base/ magento. Just replace it with Rewrite Base/

step 2: Then goto your admin panel and enable the Rewrites. You can find it at System->Configuration->Web->Search Engine Optimization

step 3: Then goto Cache management page (system cache management )