Codeigniter + URL replacement issue

Question

The scenario is I have to replace the http://www.example.com/index.php/controller/argument by http://www.example.com/controller/argument .

If somebody enter the index.php , mean uses 1st url then it should redirect to 404 error page.

As I am new on codeigniter, so can somebody please tell me how much ways are to implement this ? and what would be the best? Should I go for .htaccess or only route.php is sufficient to implement this?

Answer 1

You can find an answer in the documentation here . But basically all you have to do is to create an .htaccess file in your root directory. Mine looks like this: RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php?/$1 [L]

EDIT:

All you have to do: - Rename index.php in the root directory to something else; - Update /application/config/config.php where it says $config['index_page'] to use the newly renamed file.