How to remove index.php from Codeigniter URL
If you are using Codeigniter you are noticed that by default index.php will be included with your URL.
But you can easily remove index.php from your CodeIgniter’s URL so that your URL should be like:http://anmsaiful.net/blog/contact
To do this just follows the following steps:
- Open config.php from system/application/config directory and replace
$config['index_page'] = “index.php” by $config['index_page'] = “” - Create a “.htaccess” file in the root of CodeIgniter directory (where the system directory resides), open the file using your favorite text editor, write down the following script and save it:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php|resources|robots\.txt)
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/$1 [L,QSA] - In some case the default setting for uri_protocol does not work properly. To solve this problem just replace
$config['uri_protocol'] = “AUTO” by $config['uri_protocol'] = “REQUEST_URI” from system/application/config/config.php

I am A.N.M. Saiful Islam. Open Source Contributor, Professional Web Application Developer and currently working with Web Alive as a Software Engineer.
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Hi,
I am new to php + CodeIgniter. I am trying to learn it from the CodeIgniter documentation. But I am not clear about the instruction “Create a “.htaccess” file” — what is this actually…??? is it a file extension ?
“.htaccess” is actually a file extension. Purpose of this files are handling apache server requests manually. For details please google.
@rasel
Hi, Great! Just what I needed, although I had to fiddle around with the slashes
And… for great tutorials, that helped me learn CI fast go to http://net.tutsplus.com/ and search for CodeIgniter… they have a series on how to build an almost complete CMS!
Cool!
it helps alot.
i wonder if you can explain what in the whole wide world each line does
tq
Superb!
Thank a lot. It works fine with my PHP installed as Apache Module.
Thanks.. Its working..
Thank you!))good post..!
thanks a lot. very useful