Rewrite codeigniter URL with htaccess

Question

I need to rewrite the URL by Apache mod-rewrite in Codeigniter

The page name is example.com/pages/page1 and i need to rename it by example.com/welcome.html

I wrote this rules in htaccess file

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^pages/page1$ welcome.html [PT,L]

It doesn't work. How can i do that?.

Answer 1

Try this:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteBase /

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

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

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

assumming that index.php is your index page.

and change in config.php

$config['index_page'] = '';