Removing index.php in CodeIgniter using .htaccess file

Question

I'm currently developing a website using CodeIgniter and I recently stumbled upon a routing & .htaccess problem.

Basically, the structure of my simple website (let's call my project 'CIExample' for the sake of simplicity) is as follow:

-Home
-About Us
-Our Service
-News
-Contact Us

which I implemented using a Page controller. This controller has 5 functions which called respective page's view, i.e:

Home(), which calls the view 'Home'
About(), which calls the view 'About Us' and so on..

Previously, to access 'Home', I would need to type http://localhost/CIExample/index.php/page/home into the url window, but after setting the following routes I was able to remove the 'page' (classname) part:

$route['default_controller'] = 'page/home';
$route['home'] = 'page/home';
$route['about'] = 'page/about';
$route['service'] = 'page/service';
$route['news'] = 'page/news';
$route['contact'] = 'page/contact';

However, the tricky part came when I try to remove the 'index.php'. I want to be able to access the home page by typing http://localhost/CIExample/home.

So I did a lot of searches on CI forum/tutorial/stack overflow, and found some codes for .htaccess file:

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

or http://ellislab.com/forums/viewthread/197675/#929904
I tried both codes but none works..

http://localhost/CIExample/home would direct me to 404 not found page, but http://localhost/CIExample/index.php/home would work just fine.

I wonder what went wrongs? Is it my routes.php or .htaccess or both? Thanks.

Note: I've also changed my 'config/config.php' file -> $config['index_page'] = '';

EDIT: Finally it works! After tweaking the config.php file in config folder and set the following $config['uri_protocol'] = 'PATH_INFO'; (from 'AUTO').

Available Values:

| 'AUTO'            Default - auto detects
| 'PATH_INFO'       Uses the PATH_INFO
| 'QUERY_STRING'    Uses the QUERY_STRING
| 'REQUEST_URI'     Uses the REQUEST_URI
| 'ORIG_PATH_INFO'  Uses the ORIG_PATH_INFO

Dunno what's the different but according to one of the comments in http://www.jotorres.com/2011/12/removing-index-php-from-url-in-codeigniter/, the same code might/might not work in the production server.

Anyone can explain the reason maybe?

Answer 1

You just need to paste this in your .htaccess file:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine on
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/$1 [L,QSA]
</IfModule>

and make this alternation to your application/config/config.php file:

$config['index_page'] = '';

Answer 2

I have use following method, it is working perfectly in UBUNTU...!!

First of all verify that you have enabled mod_rewrite (you can verify using phpinfo()) in your index.php file.

IF DISABLED mod_rewrite then RUN: 1. sudo a2enmod rewrite 2. sudo gedit /etc/apache2/sites-available/defaut just replace "AllowOverride None" to "AllowOverride All" in Tag(<'Directory /var/www/'>) 3. Then please run sudo service apache2 restart

Ok Good... Now in your root directory of Codeigniter -> Find .htaccess file, if not found then press ctrl+h , still not found then create a file .htaccess

In .htaccess Paste following code :

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
        RewriteEngine On
        RewriteBase /ROOT DIRECTORY NAME/

        # Directs all EE web requests through the site index file
        RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
        RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
        RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/$1 [L]
</IfModule>

Ok finally just replace ROOT DIRECTORY NAME

DONT FORGOT TO REMOVE index.php from application/config/config.php file Make that line like $config['index_page'] = '';