Laravel 5 redirect index.php calls middleware

RedirectIndexPhpCalls.php

<?php

namespace App\Http\Middleware;

use Closure;

class RedirectIndexPhpCalls
{
    /**
     * Handle an incoming request.
     *
     * @param \Illuminate\Http\Request $request
     * @param \Closure                 $next
     *
     * @return mixed
     */
    public function handle($request, Closure $next)
    {
        if (preg_match('@/index\.php(/.+)?$@', $request->url(), $match)) {
            return isset($match[1])
             ? redirect(config('app.url').$match[1], 301)
             : redirect(config('app.url'), 301);
        }

        return $next($request);
    }
}

Thanks! not the most elegant solution but on the other hand it is triggered only for bad requests from crawlers and it is inside of a repo and not in a server config.