How to hide codeigniter footprint area from online checkers?

Question

is this possible to remove codeigniter footprint area from online tools like wappalyzer.com or builtwith.com and make the sensitive project technologies undetectable?

Answer 1

Yes, it's possible.

First, you need to know how it's being detected. Have a look at Wappalyzer code:
https://github.com/AliasIO/Wappalyzer/blob/master/src/apps.json#L1359

CodeIgniter's presence is being detected by its possible cookie names: exp_last_activity, exp_tracker, ci_session or ci_csrf_token. Or possible input name ci_csrf_token in the HTML, or precense of CodeIgniter.png icon.

You can easily remove such implications from your CodeIgniter app by modifying config files or views. And Wappalyzer won't recognize it anymore.

Don't know if BuiltWith has some opensource code to look at, but I'm pretty sure it uses such kinda implications to detect CI apps.