CodeIgniter make .htaccess return 404 for index.php

Question

Here is my .htaccess file to "remove index.php " from my CodeIgniter project URLs.

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php|images|media|assets|common|themes|robots\.txt)
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/$1 [L,QSA]
</IfModule>

This managed to add another way to navigate URLs other than index.php making these URLs both legal:

my-project/index.php/home

and

my-project/home

How do I rewrite the .htaccess so that all URLs of the pattern

my-project/index.php/*

will return 404?

Answer 1

Better solution would be setting .htacces rules to redirect all request to URLs without index.php in it. Check this one:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /codeigniter/

# Removes index.php from ExpressionEngine URLs
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^GET.*index\.php [NC]
RewriteRule (.*?)index\.php/*(.*) /codeigniter/$1$2 [R=301,NE,L]

# Directs all EE web requests through the site index file
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /codeigniter/index.php/$1 [L]

Disclaimer 1. If you are in root directory, leave just / everywhere you see /codeigniter/ . Disclaimer 2. Seems like commented out, but it is up to editor here on site, code would be working for you as is. Just c/p.

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