Remove index.php without .htaccess

It would be great to have no index.php in address without needing of .htaccess file with

Code:

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

I don't like it. 

If you are using a nginx server, then you can do it without .htaccess, but then you need to configure the config file for nginx