How to hide controller name in the url in CodeIgniter?

Question

Hi, so the thing is I'm using .htaccess to hide the index.php but I still get the controller name in the url like that: http://example.com/name_controller/about My question is: is it possible to hide the name of the controller, so that only method is shown? hxxp://example.com/name_controller/about

Answer 1

You can add an entry in the /system/application/config/routes.php file:

$route['about'] = "controller_name/about";

Answer 2

You can define a custom route in config/routes.php - for example:

$route['about'] = 'name_controller/about';

Then, http://example.com/about
goes to http://example.com/name_controller/about

See Hiding the controller’s method name in the URL? in the CI forums for more information.