Remove index.php from the URL in CodeIgnitor

In CodeIgnitor MVC, by default index.php will be included in the URL like

application_name.com/news/article/my_article

Good thing about web application that uses CodeIgnitor   framework is that we can remove that index.php from the URL of application by simple configuration on CodeIgnitor.

The three major configuration steps are as follows

STEP 1: CREATE .htaccess file

Create a .htaccess file in root directory of your application or  you can simply copy .htaccess file from the folder inside the application  folder or system folder in CodeIgnitor in your root directory of your application.

 That is folder inside your_application_name/

Now copy the following code and paste the following in .htaccess file in root of  your application

RewriteEngine On

RewriteBase /CodeIgniter/

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^system.*

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php/$1 [L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/$1 [L]

Now replace above bold CodeIgniter with your application name

STEP 2: change config.php file

Open the config.php file found inside the application_name/application/config/

Change $config[‘index_page’] to blank in config.php in application folder as below

$config['index_page'] = ' ';

STEP 3:

 Enable “rewrite_module” of apache server.

Congrats!!! you have configure your CodeIgnitor MVC Framework successfully.

Now you can access your site without index.php in url.

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