CodeIgniter removing index.php from url

Question

My current urls look like this [mysite]index.php/[rest of the slug].
I want to strip index.php from these urls.

mod_rewrite

Answer 1

Minor thing: (Optional)

Try restarting your Apache after updating the rewrite engine status in vhosts as Rewrite ON.

One critical thing to notice:

In Apache vhosts file, check whether you have this script line AllowOverride None If yes, please remove/comment this line.

My vhosts file script: (Before)

    DocumentRoot "/path/to/workspace"
    ServerName ciproject
    ErrorLog "/path/to/workspace/error.log"
    CustomLog "/path/to/workspace/access.log" common
    Directory   "/path/to/workspace">
        Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
        AllowOverride None
        Order allow,deny
        Allow from all
     

My vhosts file script: (After)

    DocumentRoot "/path/to/workspace"
    ServerName ciproject
    ErrorLog "/path/to/workspace/error.log"
    CustomLog "/path/to/workspace/access.log" common
    Directory   "/path/to/workspace">
        Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
        #AllowOverride None
        Order allow,deny
        Allow from all
     

I faced the same problem, struggled for around 1 day, all were fine. Later, by trial and error method, found this thing. After removing this, my job was accomplished. The URL now does not look up for index.php :)