What do i do if my folder and controller use the same name?

Question

I have a vendor folder created by composer on my codeigniter project and i also have a vendor controller, so when i load localhost/my_project/vendor it will open the composer folder instead but when i use localhost/my_project/index.php/vendor it loads the controller please any possible way of solving this issue. When i use localhost/my_project/admin it works perfectly incase you thinking i didn't use the default .htaccess file.

if (!defined('BASEPATH'))
  exit('No direct script access allowed');

class Vendor extends CI_Controller
{


    function __construct()
    {
        parent::__construct();
        $this->load->database();
        $this->load->library('paypal');
        $this->load->library('twoCheckout_Lib');
        $this->load->library('vouguepay');
        /*cache control*/
        $this->output->set_header('Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0');
        $this->output->set_header('Pragma: no-cache');
        //$this->crud_model->ip_data();
        $vendor_system = $this->db->get_where('general_settings', array('type' => 'vendor_system'))->row()->value;
        if ($vendor_system !== 'ok') {
            redirect(base_url(), 'refresh');
        }
    }

    /* index of the vendor. Default: Dashboard; On No Login Session: Back to login page. */
    public function index()
    {
        if ($this->session->userdata('vendor_login') == 'yes') {
            $page_data['page_name'] = "dashboard";
            $this->load->view('back/index', $page_data);
        } else {
            $page_data['control'] = "vendor";
            $this->load->view('back/login', $page_data);
        }
    }

Answer 1

You should to set right settings for your web server. You may setup rewrite rules as in example below. if you are using apache:

<LocationMatch "^/vendor">
  RewriteRule . index.php [L]
</LocationMatch>

if you are using nginx:

location /vendor {
  rewrite (.*) /index.php last;
}

Answer 2

Codeigniter uses the same Apache mod_rewrite snippet as so many applications:

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

Those both conditions first check if there is a file ( -f ) or directory ( -d ) with the requested name. And only if no such file or directory exists, the RewriteRule will take effect. Since you already have a directory "vendor" you have to set an exception for that directories name before the other rewrite:

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

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