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

+ Copy .htaccess from Application to Root folder
+ edit .htaccess and put

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteBase /ci_test/

    #Removes access to the system folder by users.
    #Additionally this will allow you to create a System.php controller,
    #previously this would not have been possible.
    #'system' can be replaced if you have renamed your system folder.
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^system.*
    RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php?/$1 [L]

    #When your application folder isn't in the system folder
    #This snippet prevents user access to the application folder
    #Submitted by: Fabdrol
    #Rename 'application' to your applications folder name.
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^application.*
    RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php?/$1 [L]

    #Checks to see if the user is attempting to access a valid file,
    #such as an image or css document, if this isn't true it sends the
    #request to index.php
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?/$1 [L]
</IfModule>

<IfModule !mod_rewrite.c>
    # If we don't have mod_rewrite installed, all 404's
    # can be sent to index.php, and everything works as normal.
    # Submitted by: ElliotHaughin

    ErrorDocument 404 /index.php
</IfModule>

Note: make sure your web server is enable for  "rewrite_module"

+ Remove index.php from $config['index_page'] = 'index.php';
- edit config.php in application/config
- search for index.php
change it from  $config['index_page'] = 'index.php'; to  $config['index_page'] = '';

Please watch this videos for reference https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFG2nMDn35Q

Answer 2

Use this code. Change the 2nd line as you have your folder name. Where index.php file and folders application, system folder lie. Mostly problems happen due to second line. we don't configure the folder name where project is place. Important is 2nd line. This is simple to remove the index.php. RewriteEngine on RewriteBase /project_folder_name RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule .* index.php/$0 [PT,L]

#RewriteEngine on
#RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php|images|robots\.txt)
#RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/$1 [L]    

Go to controller/config.php file.

config['index_url']='';

Reference for more study.

https://ellislab.com/expressionengine/user-guide/urls/remove_index.php.html

https://ellislab.com/blog/entry/fully-removing-index.php-from-urls

Answer 3

Try the following

Open config.php and do following replaces

$config['index_page'] = "index.php"

to

$config['index_page'] = ""

In some cases the default setting for uri_protocol does not work properly. Just replace

$config['uri_protocol'] ="AUTO"

by

$config['uri_protocol'] = "REQUEST_URI"

.htaccess

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php|resources|robots\.txt)
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/$1 [L,QSA] 

Note: .htaccess code vary depending on hosting server. In some hosting server (e.g.: Godaddy) need to use an extra ? in the last line of above code. The following line will be replaced with last line in applicable case:

// Replace last .htaccess line with this line
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?/$1 [L,QSA] 

Answer 4

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)

<VirtualHost *:80>
    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
    </Directory> 
</VirtualHost>

My vhosts file script: (After)

<VirtualHost *:80>
    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
    </Directory> 
</VirtualHost>

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 :)

Answer 5

Step:-1 Open the folder “application/config” and open the file “config.php“. find and replace the below code in config.php file.

//find the below code   
$config['index_page'] = "index.php" 
//replace with the below code
$config['index_page'] = ""

Step:-2 Go to your CodeIgniter folder and create .htaccess

Path:
Your_website_folder/
application/
assets/
system/
.htaccess <——— this file
index.php

Step:-3 Write below code in .htaccess file

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

Step:-4 In some case the default setting for uri_protocol does not work properly. To solve this problem just open the file “application/config/config.php“, then find and replace the below code

//Not needed for CodeIgniter 3 its already there.
//find the below code
$config['uri_protocol'] = "AUTO"
//replace with the below code
$config['uri_protocol'] = "REQUEST_URI" 

Thats all but in wamp server it does not work because rewrite_module by default disabled so we have need to enable it. for this do the following

1. Left click WAMP icon
2. Apache
3. Apache Modules
4. Left click rewrite_module

Original Documentation

Example Link

Answer 6

There are two steps:

1) Edit config.php

$config['index_page'] = 'index.php';

To

$config['index_page'] = '’;

2) Create/Edit .htaccess file

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