Question

for some reasons i’ve been having problems with mod rewrite, i have the index.php removed from the url ok but when i try to do the same for profiles it shows some contact webmaster page.
Now i’m taking the routes option but i have a little problem.

My url is http://website.com/user/profile/user_profile/username 

I have this in my routes

$route['profile/(:any)'] = 'user/profile/user_profile';

So when i type in website.com/profile/username, it works fine. My question is, what if i want to get rid of the /profile as well and have website.com/username, how do it go about it with routes?

Just incase, i might as well put my trail with modrewrite on here so all you brilliant minds can tell me where i’m going wrong.

Options FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php|images|css|javascript|cron|sit-env|robots\.txt)

RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php|javascript|sit-env|robots\.txt)

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

RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php|images|css|javascript|cron|sit-env|robots\.txt)

RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php|javascript|sit-env|robots\.txt)

RewriteRule ^([0-9a-zA-Z]+)([\/]?)$ /user/profile.php/user_profile/$1 [L]

Thanks in advance 🙂

Answer 1

I simply used the 404_override method to capture any routes not already defined in CodeIgniter and then done a database look up before showing the 404 page.

My example is actually for a CMS however it could easily be changed to suit your requirement.

public function error_404()
{
    $Path = trim(uri_string(), '/');
    $this->load->model('page_model');
    $Page = $this->page_model->GetByPath($Path);
    if(empty($Page))
    {
        $ViewData = array
        (
            'PageTitle' => 'Error 404'  
        );
        $this->load->view('error_404', $ViewData);
        return;
    }
    else
    {
        $ViewData = array
        (
            'PageTitle' => $Page->Title,
            'Keywords' => $Page->Keywords,
            'Description' => $Page->Description,
            'CurrentPage' => $Page->Path,
            'Page' => $Page
        );
        $this->load->view('generic', $ViewData);
    }
}

Within my application/config/routes.php file, I simply put

$route['404_override'] = 'controller/error_404';

replacing controller with the controller that contains the error_404 action.

You could use the segments collection to find the username passed to www.domain.com/username failing that, in line with your original request:

$route['profile/(:any)'] = 'user/profile/user_profile/$1';

The above will route www.domain.com/profile/abc123 to www.domain.com/user/profile/user_profile/abc123

Hope this helps?