Codeigniter $config['uri_protocol'] problem

Question

I need to change $config['uri_protocol'] from AUTO to PATH_INFO (to allow url parameters)

My problem: when I set $config['uri_protocol']="PATH_INFO"; the regular urls stop functioning and I get the homepage no matter which site page URL I click.

print_r ($_SERVER) shows that url parameters I add appear only in REQUEST_URI an not in any other $_SERVER part.

my htaccess is the standard one

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine On

    # This is different between local host and production server!!!
    RewriteBase /


    #Removes access to the system folder by users.
    #Additionally this will allow you to create a System.php controller,
    #previously this would not have been possible.
    #'system' can be replaced if you have renamed your system folder.
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^system.*
    RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php?/$1 [L]

    #Checks to see if the user is attempting to access a valid file,
    #such as an image or css document, if this isn't true it sends the
    #request to index.php
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?/$1 [L]
</IfModule>

<IfModule !mod_rewrite.c>
    # If we don't have mod_rewrite installed, all 404's
    # can be sent to index.php, and everything works as normal.
    # Submitted by: ElliotHaughin

    ErrorDocument 404 /index.php
</IfModule>

UPDATE:

I changed

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

to RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?/$1 [QSA,L] to allow url params to pass. Now url params appear also in

 $_SERVER

 REDIRECT_QUERY_STRING, QUERY_STRING AND REQUEST_URI

.

The problem: I tried $config[‘uri_protocol’] with all the above options but still CI gives error 404 whenever I add URL parameters.

Note: I tried the above on 2 servers. One of them is centos5/Apache2/Plesk VPS and another one is on xampp/Vista.

Answer 1

You should probably use the [QSA] option in your last rule from mod_rewrite... This appends the query string arguments (I mean after the '?') to your final URL.

Your rule ends like this :

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?baseurl=$1 [QSA,L]

If your request is :

http://yourhost.com/module/action?param1=value1&param2=value2

In the end, you get :

http://yourhost.com/index.php?baseurl=/module/action&param1=value1&param2=value2

I haven't tested it. Is it what you really want ?

Answer 2

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1880807/how-to-remove-url-parameters-in-htaccess