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

Step 1 => Place your .htaccess file in root folder where application and system folders exist.

Step 2 => If your web path using sub-folder like - yourdomain.com/project/ - then use following code in htaccess file

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

If your web path using root-folder like - yourdomain.com - then use following code in htaccess file

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

Answer 2

Step 1 :

Add this in htaccess file

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
  RewriteEngine On
  #RewriteBase /

  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
  RewriteRule ^ index.php [QSA,L]
</IfModule>

Step 2 :

Remove index.php in codeigniter config

$config['base_url'] = ''; 
$config['index_page'] = '';

Step 3 :

Allow overriding htaccess in Apache Configuration (Command)

sudo nano /etc/apache2/apache2.conf

and edit the file & change to

AllowOverride All

for www folder

Step 4 :

Enabled apache mod rewrite (Command)

sudo a2enmod rewrite

Step 5 :

Restart Apache (Command)

sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

Answer 3

You can eliminate index.php from URL by create .htaccess file in the base directory of your porject, that file its content as

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php|assets|images|js|css|uploads|favicon.png)
RewriteCond %(REQUEST_FILENAME) !-f
RewriteCond %(REQUEST_FILENAME) !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ ./index.php/$1 [L]

save that file also your changed in config.php file is right

$config['index_page'] = '';

I wish to run successfully

Answer 4

Besides these answers, one can just, add index.php or edit it (if it is already there) - for security you want to disable index.php anyway, from listing the files in your website directory - then change the content into

<?php
   header('location:your_required_starting.php'); 
?>

Answer 5

Well these all answers are good but for a newbie(which is do first time) these are confusing. There are other htaccess files which is reside in controller but we have to edit or add the htaccess in main project folder.

This is your codeigniter folder, where file resides like application,system,assets,uploads etc.

Your_project_folder/
application/
assets/
cgi-bin/
system/
.htaccess---->(Edit this file if not exist than create it)
index.php

Change this file as written below:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
  RewriteEngine On
  # !IMPORTANT! Set your RewriteBase here and don't forget trailing and leading
  #  slashes.
  # If your page resides at http://www.example.com/mypage/test1
  # then use RewriteBase /mypage/test1/
  # Otherwise /
  RewriteBase /
  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: Anand Pandey
  ErrorDocument 404 /index.php
</IfModule>

and yes of course you need to change two lines of code in the application/config/config.php

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

Answer 6

This works for me. Tested in codeigniter 3.1.11, PHP 5.6.40 I use a virtualhost in my apache2 config in testing server.

<VirtualHost *:80>
     ServerAdmin webmaster@dummy-host2.example.com
     DocumentRoot (__DIR__)
     ServerName mydomain
     ##ErrorLog "logs/dummy-host2.example.com-error.log"
     ##CustomLog "logs/dummy-host2.example.com-access.log" common
     <Directory "(__DIR__)">
        Require all granted
        AllowOverride All
   </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

And /.htaccess content

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