I'm trying to determine how to remove index.php from the Admin page URLs.
I already know how to do it for SEO on public facing pages as is documented here. And "Use Web Server Rewrites" is already on, it just isn't working for admin URLs.
Perhaps it doesn't matter that much that it includes index.php, but cleaner URLs would be much easier to manage patterns for .htaccess rules and my WAF (Web Application Firewall).
Update: I uncommented the following two lines from the .htaccess, this is not a solution. I expect there must be a setting somewhere in Magento that tells it to generate links that exclude the index.php.
## externally rewrite index.php/admin to admin
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/index.php/admin.*$
RewriteRule ^index.php/admin(.*) /admin$1 [R]
index.php
from the admin pages? What business value do you gain by doing this?