Question

I have a CodeIgniter 2.0 application in a subfolder of our existing corporate site. I plan to add functionality to the site through this application which is in a folder named “ci.”

The documentation of CodeIgniter explains .htaccess use in a “negative way” in that EVERYTHING is redirected EXCEPT exceptions. I am paranoid about doing this and “breaking” my existing site.

How would you write the .htaccess to ONLY redirect /news requests to a controller named News and /careers requests to a controller named Careers without preventing the original site from working as it does now?

I have NEVER used .htaccess before and have just “endured” the index.php out of fear of breaking the site. I did do some research before asking — besides the CodeIgniter User Guide, I also found “The Comprehensive Guide to .htaccess” (http://www.javascriptkit.com/howto/htaccess.shtml) and URL Rewriting (http://www.yourhtmlsource.com/sitemanagement/urlrewriting.html) which were in depth but did not clarify for me what to do.

Thanks in Advance,
Jon

Answer 1

The expressionengine documentation on writing out index.php shows examples of both the ‘positve’ and ‘negative’ ways you refer to.

http://expressionengine.com/wiki/Remove_index.php_From_URLs/