How do I remove 'index.php' from URL in CodeIgniter?

Question

How do I remove index.php from my URL in CodeIgniter?

I removed index.php from my configuration file, and I have run my rewrite_modul

Answer 1

I also had this problem and found that Shane's answer helped me out. I have my sites setup in WAMP.

RewriteBase /mysite/

The mysite is the alias as set in Apache. This worked for all my sites.

Answer 2

Try this out in your .htaccess file: The comments should help get it tweaked in for you...

This works perfectly for me in several CodeIgniter website installations. Also, if mod_rewrite is not installed, it will send you to a 404 page (or you can change that to suite your purpose).

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteBase /

    #'system' can be replaced if you have renamed your system folder.
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^system.*
    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

    #This last condition enables access to the images and css folders, and the robots.txt file
    RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php|(.*)\.swf|images|robots\.txt|css|docs|cache)
    RewriteRule ^(.*)$ 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.
    ErrorDocument 404 /application/errors/404.php
</IfModule>

Check your virtual hosts file and see if you have these items set -- these may allow your .htaccess file to rewrite the URL correctly:

Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
Order deny,allow
Deny from all

Answer 3

First of all, make sure that you have defined a default controller. Then make sure that you construct URLs in such a way that there is a controller associated with them. For example,

Home page:

example.com/home/

Or for the About us page:

example.com/about/  

Also double check that you have turned on the mod-rewrite module.

Answer 4

.htacess

RewriteEngine on

#Any HTTP request other than those for index.php, 
#assets folder, files   folder and robots.txt
#is treated as a request for your index.php file.

RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php|assets|files|robots\.txt)
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/$1 [L]

after this go to application/config/config.php and modify these two variables with the values mentioned below.

$config['base_url'] = '';

and

$config['index_page'] = '';

Answer 5

I also had a problem with the rewrite rule suggested in the CodeIgniter user guide. I solved it by removing the slash from in front of index.php

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/$1 [L]

Answer 6

This 100% works, I've tried it. Add only the following in your .htaccess file:

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