PHP Codeigniter Htaccess. Remove controller name and index.php and rewrite url

Question

Hello all i have been working on a new project in Codeigniter and everything is working great except one thing that is url

What i want is to remove the controller name main and the word index.php from my URL like my url is right now like this

Current URL: www.domain.com/index.php/main/contact

where main = controller name and contact is function name

Needed url: www.domain.com/contact

i know that i can remove index.php and controller name by htaccess and i have also achieved it some what bt the problem is all of my links in the website is already lined as domain.com/index.php/main/contact so i want something which can automatically redirect the url to the required url without index.php and controller name.

Note: controller name is always "main"

My htaccess file is like this in root folder:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\. [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(?:www\.)?(.+)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^ https://%1%{REQUEST_URI} [L,NE,R=301]

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine on
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteRule ^ index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# remove index.php
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} !POST
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} /index\.php [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^(.*/)index\.php$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^ %1 [L,R=301,NE]

# To externally redirect /dir/file.php to /dir/file
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} !POST
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} \s/+(.+?)\.php[\s?] [NC]
RewriteRule ^ /%1 [R=301,NE,L]

# To internally forward /dir/file to /dir/file.php
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/$1.php -f
RewriteRule ^(.+?)/?$ $1.php [L]

Header set Access-Control-Allow-Origin "*"

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

Any help in this manner is highly appreciated. also i do not want to have any problem with my form submitions as they have the action urls etc.

Please follow each step stackoverflow.com/questions/19183311/… — Klint
– Klint, Commented Nov 16, 2019 at 6:53
Be sure your .htaccess file should be in root dir. not in system folder also remove .htaccess file from application folder @Lisa — Klint
– Klint, Commented Nov 16, 2019 at 6:55
Give this a shot if others fail. This has always worked for me. Fool proof every time. Regardless of the framework. stackoverflow.com/a/35014499/3532758 — user3532758
– user3532758, Commented Nov 16, 2019 at 6:58
i can remove the index.php from url but i want ot to be auto redirected too. — LIsa
– LIsa, Commented Nov 16, 2019 at 7:46
With the current rules as shown, if you enter domain.com/contact in browser, does it load correct content? — anubhava
– anubhava, Commented Nov 16, 2019 at 14:48

iamatstackoverflow · Accepted Answer · 2019-11-16 10:53:05Z

2

1) To remove index.php from the URL you can follow this CodeIgniter removing index.php from url

2) To rewrite your url from www.domain.com/index.php/main/contact to www.domain.com/contact you have to do the routing in application->config->routes.php. Like this

$route['contact'] = 'main/contact';

answered Nov 16, 2019 at 10:53

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LIsa Over a year ago

its awesome , works but what i want is something from htaccess which redirects auto from main url to preferred url.

LIsa Over a year ago

how can i do it for all the links in the website automatically ???

LIsa Over a year ago

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

LIsa Over a year ago

its working great but not loading this perticular page domain.com/index.php/admin

anubhava · Accepted Answer · 2019-11-18 14:47:44Z

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Insert this rule just below RewriteEngine On line as your topmost rule:

# remove /index.php/main/ from URLs
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} \s/+index\.php/main/ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(?:www\.)?(.+)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^index\.php/main(/.*)?$ https://%1$1 [L,NC,NE,R=301]

answered Nov 18, 2019 at 14:47

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LIsa Over a year ago

This works perfectly fine , this is awesome i knew you will help me yo are the best . just one last question i have many urls to rewrite like this so should i just all the urls like $route['contact'] = 'main/contact'; in route.php or it can be automatic also ??

anubhava Over a year ago

It can be automatic in a standard htacceas setup but you are using CI framework that I don't know well enough to say the same with full surely

LIsa Over a year ago

i can try if you let me know how to do that on standard, i will update the standard htaccess and i think will work with CI too ! Regards

LIsa Over a year ago

got the answer $route['(:any)'] = "main/$1"; for routes.php

LIsa Over a year ago

i am getting err_http2_ping_failed 200, for images and the images does not load when i use the above code in my website as htaccess. any advice sir ??

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