CodeIgniter URL Rewrite for Nginx Server

Question

This is my CodeIgniter Controller class code.

class View extends MY_Controller
{

    function index($number)
    {
        .....
    }
    .......
}

Through browser, I can access the View class's index method using this URL

http://localhost/view/index/12

So, my question is

is there any efficient way to rewrite the URL, for example, into this URL

http://localhost/view/12

My web server is Nginx.

Answer 1

index() is called by default , but if you want to do it for other functions , you can make use of URI Routing feature in CI.

Add this to routes.php in config directory.

$route['view/(:num)'] = "view/index/$1";

Answer 2

Remove the trailing index from all controllers using the following configuration in Nginx

# removes trailing "index" from all controllers
if ($request_uri ~* index/?$)
{
    rewrite ^/(.*)/index/?$ /$1 permanent;
}

Explicitly you can route the URLs from CodeIgniter Routing file located in

./application/config/routes.php

Insert this code. This should work for both Nginx or Apache Servers.

// hide index from all controllers
$route['(:any)/(:any)'] = "$1/index/$2";

// hide only from View Controller
$route['view/(:any)'] = "view/index/$1";

// hide only from View with numeric parameter
$route['view/(:num)'] = "view/index/$1";

Find more information about Nginx URL Rewrite from documentation. Hope this helps you. Thanks!!