Can't remove index.php, custom route not working

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I know this question is more appropriate for Server Fault but unfortunately I was banned for poor quality questions (I was down voted on 2-3 questions I asked.) So the next best place to ask these questions are here.

I have two problems related to CodeIgniter routing.

The first problem is that I can't seem to get rid of index.php in the url. I followed the instructions on how to remove it. I have the following mod rewrite code in my .htaccess file (see below) at the root of my WAMP server (CI is located at the root, not in its own folder). I have uncommented this line in httpd.conf file LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so. I deleted index.php from $config['index_page'] = "index.php";. And I restarted all WAMP services.

My second problem is that I have a controller called search and a method called index. I would like to change the resultant URL from http://localhost/index.php/search/index to http://localhost/search/whatever_im_searching_for. I tried the following custom route in my routes.php file but it did not work: $route['search/(.*)'] = "search/$1";

RewriteEngine On

# Put your installation directory here:
# If your URL is www.example.com/, use /
# If your URL is www.example.com/site_folder/, use /site_folder/

RewriteBase /

# Do not enable rewriting for files or directories that exist
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

# For reuests that are not actual files or directories,
# Rewrite to index.php/URL
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/$1 [PT,L]

I am struggling to understand the code in .htaccess and on how to use CI's custom routing. Any assistance will be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance.

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Community · Accepted Answer · 2017-05-23 10:32:37Z

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Edit your htaccess like this:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^system.*
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?/$1 [L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^LoginTut.*
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?/$1 [L]

RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php|images|table-images|js|robots\.txt|css|captcha)

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?$1 [L]
</IfModule>
<IfModule !mod_rewrite.c>
 ErrorDocument 404 index.php
</IfModule>

To have your searchterms in the url you can look at this:

https://stackoverflow.com/a/12070284/1379394

edited May 23, 2017 at 10:32

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answered Aug 23, 2013 at 9:43

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Anthony Over a year ago

+1 Thank you for your reply Kees. Unfortunately, i'm still getting the index.php in my url. I pasted your code in the .htaccess file in my root and restarted all WAMP services. I find this is very strange! I've edited my question to include a screen shot of my www directory. What else can I try?

Anthony Over a year ago

My uri_protocol in config.php is set to $config['uri_protocol'] = 'AUTO'; Does this have anything to do with my problem?

Anthony Over a year ago

I have another .htaccess file inside the application directory that has Deny from all

Kees Sonnema Over a year ago

uri_protocol is set to AUTO by default. So that has nothing to do with it.

Michael D. · Accepted Answer · 2013-08-25 01:11:53Z

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Second problem:

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

answered Aug 25, 2013 at 1:11

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Anthony Over a year ago

+1 Thank you for your reply. Unfortunately, it did not work even after I restarted WAMP services. I don't understand why none of these options are working. It used to work up to recently. I'm feel there is a setting in the httpd file that is preventing my issues from being resolved. I'm rereading httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/howto/htaccess.html

Michael D. · Accepted Answer · 2013-08-25 10:09:14Z

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Check Apache's default config file. On WAMP it's probably in

<WAMPSERVER_HOME>\bin\apache\Apache2.2.xx\conf

If it looks like this:

    DocumentRoot /var/www
    <Directory />
            Options FollowSymLinks
            AllowOverride None
    </Directory>
    <Directory /var/www/>
            Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
            AllowOverride None
            Order allow,deny
            allow from all
    </Directory>

then change both:

AllowOverride None

to:

AllowOverride All

answered Aug 25, 2013 at 10:09

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Nikita R. · Accepted Answer · 2013-11-06 00:50:00Z

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I had the same problem and I fixed only by write in my .htaccess:

RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php|images|robots\.txt)

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

and it's working perfectly.

edited Nov 6, 2013 at 0:50

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