How to remove “index.php” in codeigniter's path

I had some big issues with removing the index.php. As a general rule the .htaccess below has been tested on several servers and generally works:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/$1 [L]  

<Files "index.php">
AcceptPathInfo On
</Files>  

If you don't have any luck with that then the next step is to adjust your config file. Try some of the other URI protocols e.g.

| 'AUTO'            Default - auto detects
| 'PATH_INFO'       Uses the PATH_INFO
| 'QUERY_STRING'    Uses the QUERY_STRING
| 'REQUEST_URI'     Uses the REQUEST_URI
| 'ORIG_PATH_INFO'  Uses the ORIG_PATH_INFO

   $config['uri_protocol']  = 'ORIG_PATH_INFO';

If your still not having any luck try changing the rewrite rule to include your subfolder. This is often a problem if your using a temporary URL on a dev server etc:

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /subofolder1/subfolder2/index.php/$1 [L]  

Just play around with these options, one should work. Also, make sure your index file is set to:

$config['index_page'] = '';

Good luck!

Have a look in the system\application\config\config.php file, there is a variable named index_page

It should look like this

$config['index_page'] = "index.php";

change it to

$config['index_page'] = "";

Then as mentioned you also need to add a rewrite rule to the .htaccess file

Note: in CodeIgniter v2 this file was moved out of the system folder to application\config\config.php

Have the.htaccess file in the application root directory, along with the index.php file. (Check if the htaccess extension is correct , Bz htaccess.txt did not work for me.)

And Add the following rules to .htaccess file,

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/$1 [L]  

Then find the following line in your application/config/config.php file

$config['index_page'] = 'index.php';

Set the variable empty as below.

$config['index_page'] = '';

That's it, it worked for me.

If it doesn't work further try to replace following variable with these parameters ('AUTO', 'PATH_INFO', 'QUERY_STRING', 'REQUEST_URI', and 'ORIG_PATH_INFO') one by one

$config['uri_protocol'] = 'AUTO';

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule .* index.php/$0 [PT,L] 

This must definitely work.. have a try

This is an .htaccess for one of my CI projects:

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

The last line should give you what you need, though you may or may not need '/projectFolder' depending on how your folder structure is set up. Good luck!

Use mod_rewrite as instructed in this tutorial from the CI wiki.

Just thought i might add

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php|resources|robots\.txt)
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/$1 [L,QSA] 

would be the .htaccess and be sure to edit your application/config.php variable in the following manner:

replace

$config['uri_protocol'] = “AUTO” 

with

$config['uri_protocol'] = “REQUEST_URI”

All above methods failed for me and then I found that I was not changing AllowOverride None to AllowOverride All in my virtual host file at /etc/apache2/sites-available/default

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost

    DocumentRoot /var/www
    <Directory />
            Options FollowSymLinks
            AllowOverride All    <---- replace None with All
    </Directory>
    <Directory /var/www >
            Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
            AllowOverride All   <---  replace None with All
            Order allow,deny
            allow from all
    </Directory>

     ...

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule .* /codeigniter/index.php/$0 [PT,L]

after changing RewriteRule .* index.php/$0 [PT,L] with the project folder name "codeigniter".its working for me. Thanks guys for your support.

place a .htaccess file in your root web directory

Whatsoever tweaking you do - if the above is not met - it will not work. Usually its in the System folder, it should be in the root. Cheers!

i tested this on apache2 on many different hosting and it works great.

use this htaccess

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php/$1 [L]

be sure you have enabled mod_rewirte with a phpinfo();

then do this in config/config.php:

$config['index_url']    = '';
|
| 'AUTO'            Default - auto detects
| 'PATH_INFO'       Uses the PATH_INFO
| 'QUERY_STRING'    Uses the QUERY_STRING
| 'REQUEST_URI'     Uses the REQUEST_URI
| 'ORIG_PATH_INFO'  Uses the ORIG_PATH_INFO
|
*/
$config['uri_protocol'] = 'AUTO';

if it doesn't works yet, try to change the $config['uri_protocol']='AUTO' to one of the listed inside application/config/config.php file on line 40/54:

sometimes i used : REQUEST_URI instead of AUTO or "QUERY_STRING" for goDaddy hostings

Ensure you have enabled mod_rewrite (I hadn't).
To enable:

sudo a2enmod rewrite  

Also, replace AllowOverride None by AllowOverride All

sudo gedit /etc/apache2/sites-available/default  

Finaly...

sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart  

My .htaccess is

RewriteEngine on  
RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php|[assets/css/js/img]|robots\.txt)  
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/$1 [L]