Remove index.php from your Codeigniter application URL

October 21st, 2008 pctips Posted in PHP, Tips | 27 Comments »

If you are using Codeigniter for developing PHP applications you noticed the “index.php” part of the URL of your application.

You can remove it by doing two simple things:

1. Edit the config.php from .system/application/config/ and change the $config['index_page'] like this: $config['index_page'] = “”;

2. Create a .htaccess page in the root of the Codeigniter application:
RewriteEngine On RewriteBase /CIapplication RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^system.* RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php/$1 [L] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/$1 [L]

Edit line two in order to suit your setup.

Now you will be able to use: http://server.com/CIapplication/controller instead of: http://server.com/CIapplication/index.php/controller
In case this is not working, modify this line in config.php:
$config['uri_protocol'] = "AUTO";
and change it to:
$config['uri_protocol'] = "REQUEST_URI";

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jheLo Says:
November 3rd, 2008 at 4:27 pm

thanks for this information!

bambangp Says:
December 26th, 2008 at 4:27 pm

thanks for your information

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December 29th, 2008 at 4:04 am

This is just what i needed!

Bogdan Says:
December 29th, 2008 at 2:47 pm

Hy… This is not working for me. I have modified the config.php file and it`s still not working.

pctips Says:
December 29th, 2008 at 9:29 pm

I would try to help you, but please provide more information
Do you get any error? Do you get the 404 File not found from web server, or the File not found error from CI?

Bogdan Says:
December 30th, 2008 at 3:56 pm

So… I succeed in making it to work for a website… It was from my Apache configuration. But when I tried to do the same for another website it`s not working again. I get the 404 error. Not Found. The .htaccess file is created and changed for this website, the server configurations are the same, when I access http://localhost/site_name/ it works but when I access http://localhost/site_name/welcome/ it isn`t work. It is working only if I access http://localhost/site_name/index.php/welcome/

Bogdan Says:
December 30th, 2008 at 3:58 pm

As I see I`m the only one that has problems with this so I think that there is something that I`m not doing right. But I can`t understand what.

pctips Says:
December 30th, 2008 at 4:06 pm

Try to change in httpd.conf:
Options All
AllowOverride All

and see if it works. Also check if apache has mod_rewrite on

Bogdan Says:
December 30th, 2008 at 4:21 pm

Well I most say that I`m a little bit confused about this httpd.conf file when we start to talk about AllowOverride All.

So it works now but what have I done? I had deleted the
AllowOverride All

and istead of old_website I put the new_website… It seems to work for new_webstie. I`ve done this to see if it works but if I put two one with old_website and one with new_website… It seems to work only for the first that is in the httpd.conf.

Apache has mod_rewrite on because I activated it when I started to work with this. I have changed in Options All AllowOverride All but it works in the same way, only the first.

Bogdan Says:
December 30th, 2008 at 4:24 pm

OK, now it`s done, I`ve modified again the httpd.conf file and it seems to work very good. Thanks again and I`m sorry for the inconvenience.

pctips Says:
December 30th, 2008 at 6:02 pm

AllowOverride All tells Apache to use the “settings” in .htaccess, if any.

More here:
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/core.html#allowoverride

Anyway, i’m glad it works after all
If you have any more questions, you can find me on yahoo messenger, id: pc_tips
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April 15th, 2009 at 12:27 am

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Tele Says:
June 25th, 2009 at 8:03 pm

Thanks mate.

Richie Says:
August 3rd, 2009 at 11:42 am

Well done dude! Thanks so much

Richie

Nitin Says:
August 28th, 2009 at 8:41 am

Thanks for post and providing detailed information about to make changes in .htaccess and make it workable. But my question to you is, whether this provided solution is applicable to the websites those are hosted on Shared Hosting?

Nitin

pctips Says:
August 28th, 2009 at 8:53 am

Hello Nitin

I used this on Hostgator, GoDaddy and Bizland.
On Bizland, the line:
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/$1 [L]

should be changed to

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?$1 [L]

Regards

Owens Roofing Says:
September 3rd, 2009 at 3:18 pm

Thanks for the guide on how to do it on hostgator. I’m using it and was wondering how to do it and whether it may work or not. You cleared my daubt.

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Work At Home Says:
October 11th, 2009 at 5:09 pm

Excellent tips on how we doit on server side removal. Thank you for your sharing on removing index.php name in URL. I always hate to see that index.php at the suffix of each main URL.

jack cao Says:
November 22nd, 2009 at 2:29 pm

hi man,

I deploy in XAMPP server. It doesn’t work.

Thanks,
Jack

pctips Says:
November 22nd, 2009 at 3:24 pm

Can you be a little more specific? Did you try to change $config['uri_protocol'] in config.php?

Mario Says:
December 1st, 2009 at 7:47 pm

hi jack

For xamp i have created a .htaccess with these lines

—————————————-

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /myapp

#Removes access to the system folder by users.
#Additionally this will allow you to create a System.php controller,
#previously this would not have been possible.
#’system’ can be replaced if you have renamed your system folder.
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^system.*
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php?/$1 [L]

#Checks to see if the user is attempting to access a valid file,
#such as an image or css document, if this isn’t true it sends the
#request to index.php
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?/$1 [L]

# If we don’t have mod_rewrite installed, all 404’s
# can be sent to index.php, and everything works as normal.
# Submitted by: ElliotHaughin

ErrorDocument 404 /index.php

——————————

and the parameter $config['uri_protocol'] = ‘AUTO’

It’s working fine for me

Thanks

Mario Says:
December 1st, 2009 at 7:50 pm


    RewriteEngine On

	RewriteBase /myapp
    #Removes access to the system folder by users.

    #Additionally this will allow you to create a System.php controller,

    #previously this would not have been possible.

    #'system' can be replaced if you have renamed your system folder.

    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^system.*

    RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php?/$1 [L]
    #Checks to see if the user is attempting to access a valid file,

    #such as an image or css document, if this isn't true it sends the

    #request to index.php

    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f

    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

    RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?/$1 [L]
    # If we don't have mod_rewrite installed, all 404's

    # can be sent to index.php, and everything works as normal.

    # Submitted by: ElliotHaughin
    ErrorDocument 404 /index.php