How to remove controller name from url making it clean in codeigniter

Question

I have the following url..

http://localhost/ci/site_controller/home

I want to remove site_controller controller

Answer 1

I just found the solution in this link, it works for me: http://ellislab.com/forums/viewthread/148531/

$route['^(page1|page2|page3|page4)(/:any)?$'] = "YOURCONTROLLERNAME/$0";

Hope it helps you :)

Answer 2

Drop the 'ci' from your routes. That is your project name and is never required. Routes always start on the controller level:

$route['home'] = "site_controller/home";

Will work. However, more importantly.. are you sure your design is correct? Why not just let home be a controller? Create a /application/controllers/home.php and you'll be able to access it's index() function with http://localhost/ci/home.

You're complicating things. No need for routes at all.

Answer 3

assuming you currently have your url http://localhost/ci/site_controller/home you can just write an explicit route like below to your /application/config/routes.php

$route['ci/home'] = 'site_controller/home';

or

$route['ci/home'] = 'ci/site_controller/home';

if your controller is namespaced to /application/controllers/ci/