Remove “index.php” from URL - Codeigniter

Question

I\'ve looked in the documentation of Codeigniter of removing the index.php from the URL when accessing different views, the code shows how to remove it with apa

Answer 1

You need to make "http://localhost/code" your web root as 'code.local' (in my example). Assuming that your setup on Mac OS X Snow Leopard is the same as mine.

You should add the following lines to "/etc/apache2/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf"

<VirtualHost *:80>
    DocumentRoot "/Users/~myusername~/Sites/code"
    ServerName "code.local"
    ErrorLog "/private/var/log/apache2/code-error_log"
    CustomLog "/private/var/log/apache2/code-access_log" common
</VirtualHost>

Also make sure that it is uncommented in "/etc/apache2/httpd.conf"

# Virtual hosts
Include /private/etc/apache2/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf

Then you add code.local to your "/etc/hosts" which should look like this

##
# Host Database
#
# localhost is used to configure the loopback interface
# when the system is booting.  Do not change this entry.
##
127.0.0.1       localhost
127.0.0.1       code.local

Then restart your apache "/usr/sbin/apachectl -k restart".

You might need to sudo if you are not a super user. Hope this helps.

EDIT: To check if your virtual host works. Run this sudo /usr/sbin/apachectl -k restart -S To see if code.local has been added as one of your virtual hosts.

Then try accessing code.local/index.php/welcome and code.local/welcome to check if it works.

Answer 2

copy the .htaccess on your main codeigniter folder, mine was localhost/codeigniter/ and then change the {RewriteBase / to RewriteBase /codeigniter/}

Answer 3

To remove index.php from URL just add

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule .* index.php/$0 [PT,L]

in the .htaccess file and move the .htaccess file near to index.php location

/var/www/CodeIgniter/index.php
/var/www/CodeIgniter/.htaccess

in config.php in config folder set

$config['index_page'] = '';

Answer 4

in /etc/apache2/users/.conf

try adding ..

<Directory "/Users/<your user name>/Sites/">
    Options Indexes MultiViews FollowSymlinks
    AllowOverride all
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
</Directory>

and restart Apache to check results ..

Answer 5

Since your CI installation is not into your document root you should add RewriteBase /code/ to make it works.

This is my .htacces I use for a CI installation (this is little bit more elaborated than the one provided with the official documentation):

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>

    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteBase /code/

    #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>

Also make sure your httpd can handle .htaccess file. Check into httpd.conf if exists a line with AllowOverride all inside a <Directory></Directory> element

Hope this help

Answer 6

From the words of the CodeIgniter documentation

By default, the index.php file will be included in your URLs:

example.com/index.php/news/article/my_article You can easily remove this file by using a .htaccess file with some simple rules. Here is an example of such a file, using the "negative" method in which everything is redirected except the specified items:

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

In the above example, any HTTP request other than those for index.php, images, and robots.txt is treated as a request for your index.php file.

you can find it here: http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/general/urls.html