Question

I have an application that works great when using the full url: sitename.com/index.php/foo/ but when I use HTaccess to remove the index.php it doesn’t seem to work as expected. No matter which page I access I only see the home page. The htaccess file is doing something because without that line I get a 404 error.

    RewriteEngine on
    RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php|assets|file-manager-files|robots\.txt|favicon\.ico)
    RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php/$1 [L]

Thoughts?

On my test site everything works just fine. Is this a server setting that needs to be tweaked?

Answer 1

With Codeigniter you want something like this:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteBase /

    #Removes access to the system folder by users.
    #Additionally this will allow you to create a System.php controller,
    #previously this would not have been possible.
    #'system' can be replaced if you have renamed your system folder.
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^system.*
    RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php?/$1 [L]

    #When your application folder isn't in the system folder
    #This snippet prevents user access to the application folder
    #Submitted by: Fabdrol
    #Rename 'application' to your applications folder name.
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^application.*
    RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php?/$1 [L]

    #Checks to see if the user is attempting to access a valid file,
    #such as an image or css document, if this isn't true it sends the
    #request to index.php
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?/$1 [L]
</IfModule>

<IfModule !mod_rewrite.c>
    # If we don't have mod_rewrite installed, all 404's
    # can be sent to index.php, and everything works as normal.
    # Submitted by: ElliotHaughin

    ErrorDocument 404 /index.php
</IfModule>  

If that is not working, check to make sure $config['index_page'] = ''; and your .htaccess directives are set right:

<Directory "/some/absolute/path/htdocs">
Options Indexes Includes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride AuthConfig FileInfo
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>  

I’ve done hundreds of Codeigniter installs on many OS configs and have always been able to get this to work, but I have had some issues occasionally where I had to get creative to get the index.php to disappear.