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 from url resulting in..

 http://localhost/ci/home

How can I do this in CodeIgniter ?

Note: If you'll ask what I've tried than I've just done searching over Google as I don't know how to use mod_rewrite.

EDIT

I have this in my routes.php

$route['default_controller'] = "site_controller/home";
$route['ci/home'] = 'ci/site_controller/home';
$route['404_override'] = '';

but still not working!

.htaccess

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /ci/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^system.*
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php/$1 [L]

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

ErrorDocument 404 /index.php

Answer 1

You can set your a route for each url:

In your config/routes.php file, just set each page like this:

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

Answer 2

This might help you to define a Default Controller for your CodeIgniter project.

https://codeigniter.com/user_guide/general/controllers.html#defining-a-default-controller

For instance, in your case, open your application/config/routes.php file and set this variable:

$route['default_controller'] = 'site_controller';

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/

Answer 4

try using the routes file to re-map url's

http://ellislab.com/codeigniter/user_guide/general/routing.html

Answer 5

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 6

This helped for me. In "routes.php" I added this:

$route['(:any)'] = "default_controller/$1";

Answer 7

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.