Codeigniter - how to remove the index.php from url?

Question

I have following structure of my project

/system
/applications
  /cache
  /core
  /helpers
  /hook
  /language
  /libraries
  /logs
  /third_party
  /admin-p         


        

Answer 1

Open config.php from system/application/config directory

and replace

$config['index_page'] = “index.php” by $config['index_page'] = “”

Create a “.htaccess” file in the root of CodeIgniter directory

and add the following lines.

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

In some case the default setting for uri_protocol does not work properly.

To solve this problem just replace

`$config['uri_protocol'] = “AUTO”` 

by

 $config['uri_protocol'] = “REQUEST_URI” 

from system/application/config/config.php

Answer 2

Have a look in the config.php file, there is a variable named 'index_page'

try changing

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

to

$config['index_page'] = "";

Answer 3

Be sure of the following :

1. .htaccess needs to be placed in the same directory as the index.php file, usually root of the application.
2. read the manual about codeigniter and .htaccess
3. Be sure that apache is running the rewrite module named : rewrite_module you can read more about enabling the module on linux here : Blog post or for wamp here : Wamp icon -> Apache -> Apache Modules -> rewrite_module

Answer 4

if your root folder for project is not root of domain i.e. your website is subdirectory of a domain http://localhost/myproject then you need an additional line in your .htaccess file that is RewriteBase

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

Also make sure, your config.php is configured as

$config['base_url'] = 'http://localhost/myproject/';
$config['index_page'] = '';

And mod_rewrite is enable in apache's config file.