CodeIgniter QueryStrings

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First of all I MUST point out that I am NOT a programmer, have NO desire to be a programmer, and the application i am speaking of was NOT written by me. I am just an average end user trying to make things work like I need them to work. That being said,

Two simple questions:

1.) Why will urls like this not work with codeigniter powered apps ?

http://somesite.com/search?q=something

2.) How do I force it to work like that ?

I have read atleast 2 dozen articles on the issue and NOTHING has worked. I have enabled QueryStrings in the config file, I have change the url_protocol to PATH_INFO, I have set my forms from post to get and NOTHING works.

HELP...

Why do you need a particular app to work with a certain kind of URL format? It all depends on the application really, but in most cases, you should be able to adapt. — Delan Azabani
– Delan Azabani, Commented Jul 18, 2011 at 9:28
I NEED it to work like this because I have another application that needs this behavior. I could simply write some very ugly code (since I am not a programmer an all) for the other application to make an exception for ALL codeigniter apps or I could just fix the problem that CI dev team seems to ignore and be done with it. — Mark
– Mark, Commented Jul 18, 2011 at 9:39
possible duplicate of How to use both URI segments and Query strings without enabling: enable_query_strings — No Results Found
– No Results Found, Commented Jul 18, 2011 at 9:56
The main issue is that you need to enable allow_get_array which is not introduced until version 2.0.2 (currently the latest version). enable_query_strings, although it sounds like it should do what it says, it completely different. — No Results Found
– No Results Found, Commented Jul 18, 2011 at 9:57
It's not a duplicate because I am NOT the developer in this case. I do not have codeigniter on my system. I am just an end user of an application I found on the net which was written with codeigniter. — Mark
– Mark, Commented Jul 18, 2011 at 10:01

Sled · Accepted Answer · 2012-01-26 16:40:52Z

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Ok, try changing $config['uri_protocol'] = "PATH INFO"; to $config['uri_protocol'] = "REQUEST_URI";

If this still does not work, check your .htaccess file for a rule that removes index.php from URL; it will be of the form:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/?$1 [L]

If this rule exists, change the last line to `RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/$1 [L]

Notice, the ? is removed from last line. Check after doing above steps. Hope this works.

edited Jan 26, 2012 at 16:40

Sled

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answered Jul 18, 2011 at 9:32

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Mark Over a year ago

I changed the protocol as suggested and tried again and got a 404 error when trying to load the page so I created an .htaccess file and copied and pasted the rules you posted into it and placed it in my scripts main folder and still got a 404 error. Next ...

user441407 Over a year ago

CAn you post your routes.php file

user441407 Over a year ago

@Mark, in your htaccess file, replace RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/?$1 [L] with RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/$1 [L] Notice, the absence of "?" in the above rule. this will surely work

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