{"id":102,"date":"2013-05-26T13:30:40","date_gmt":"2013-05-26T13:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.joetannorella.com\/?p=102"},"modified":"2013-05-26T13:30:40","modified_gmt":"2013-05-26T13:30:40","slug":"how-to-remove-index-php-from-codeigniter-urls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joetannorella.com\/how-to-remove-index-php-from-codeigniter-urls\/","title":{"rendered":"How to remove index.php from Codeigniter URLs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ellislab.com\/codeigniter\" target=\"_blank\">Codeigniter<\/a> is an awesome PHP framework that makes PHP development much simpler, and much much faster. I&#8217;ve only been getting to grips with it for a few days, but have noticed there are some quirks that come packaged that you&#8217;re going to want to get rid of. One of these is the fact that &#8216;index.php&#8217; is present in all URLs as standard.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not difficult to fix this issue.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Step 1<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Go to <em>\/application\/config\/config.php\/ <\/em>and change the following line:<\/p>\n<pre>$config['index_page'] = 'index.php';<\/pre>\n<p>to<\/p>\n<pre>$config['index_page'] = '';<\/pre>\n<p>As in the screenshot below (I&#8217;m using Sublime Text 2 in case anyone is wondering):<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.joetannorella.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/codeigniter-indexphp.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-103\" alt=\"codeigniter-indexphp\" src=\"https:\/\/www.joetannorella.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/codeigniter-indexphp.png\" width=\"572\" height=\"129\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Step 2<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Now make sure you have a .htaccess file in the Codeigniter root. Note that as standard, the .htaccess file comes in the \/application\/ directory&#8230; You need to move the .htaccess file up a directory for it to work.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Step 3<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Add the following to the .htaccess file:<\/p>\n<pre>RewriteEngine On\nRewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f\nRewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d\nRewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php\/$1 [L]<\/pre>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Codeigniter is an awesome PHP framework that makes PHP development much simpler, and much much faster. I&#8217;ve only been getting to grips with it for a few days, but have noticed there are some quirks that come packaged that you&#8217;re going to want to get rid of. One of these is the fact that &#8216;index.php&#8217;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[10],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.13 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>How to remove index.php from Codeigniter URLs - JoeTannorella.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.joetannorella.com\/how-to-remove-index-php-from-codeigniter-urls\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"How to remove index.php from Codeigniter URLs - JoeTannorella.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Codeigniter is an awesome PHP framework that makes PHP development much simpler, and much much faster. 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