how to remove index.php from url in codeigniter ?

Question

how to remove index.php from my url in codeigniter . i remove index.php from my config file and i have run my rewrite_module in apache(2.2.11) and my .htaccess file is

RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php|images|captcha|css|js|robots\.txt)
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php/$1 [L]

now whenever i click any link it show that request url don't found . so please tell me what is the problem ?

Answer 1

First of all, make sure that you have defined a default controller. Then make sure that you construct urls in such way that there is a controller associated with them; for example,

Homepage:

example.com/home/

Or for about us page:

example.com/about/  

Also double check that you have turned on mod-rewrite module.

Answer 2

Try this out in your .htaccess file: The comments should get help get it tweaked in for you.. This works perfectly for me in several CI website installations. Also if mod_rewrite is not installed it will send you to a 404 (or you can change that to suite your purpose)

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteBase /

    #'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

    #This last condition enables access to the images and css folders, and the robots.txt file
    RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php|(.*)\.swf|images|robots\.txt|css|docs|cache)
    RewriteRule ^(.*)$ 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.
    ErrorDocument 404 /application/errors/404.php
</IfModule>

EDIT: Check your virtual hosts file and see if you have these items set--these may allow your htaccess file to rewrite the url correctly:

Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
Order deny,allow
Deny from all

Answer 3

I also had this problem and found that Shanes answe helped me out. I have my sites setup in WAMP.

RewriteBase /mysite/

the mysite is the alias as set in Apache. Well this worked for all my sites.

Answer 4

I also had a problem with the rewrite rule suggested in the CodeIgniter user guide. I solved it by removing the slash from in front of index.php

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