CodeIgniter removing index php from url

Question

My current urls look like this [mysite]index.php/[rest of the slug].

I want to strip index.php from these urls.

mod_rewrite is enabled on my apache2 server. In config, $config['index_page'] = '';

My codeignitor root .htaccess file contains:-

RewriteEngine on 
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f 
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d 
RewriteRule .* index.php/$0 [PT,L]

But yet, it fails to work. I would like to know where am I going wrong?

Answer 1

To solve your doubt, use the following lines:-

Open config.php and do following replaces

$config['index_page'] = "index.php"

to

$config['index_page'] = ""

In some cases the default setting for uri_protocol does not work properly. Just replace

$config['uri_protocol'] ="AUTO"

By

$config['uri_protocol'] = "REQUEST_URI"

For the .htaccess root file, use:-

RewriteEngine on 
RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php|resources|robots\.txt) 
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f 
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d 
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/$1 [L,QSA]

Please remember that the .htaccess code varies depending on the hosting server. Do some hosting servers such as Godaddy need to use an extra ? This answer lies in the last line of the above code. The following line will be replaced with last line in applicable case:

// Replace last .htaccess line with this line RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?/$1 [L,QSA]