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Asked: 2026-05-17T20:08:05+00:00

I would like to create a custom CMS within Codeigniter, and I need a

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I would like to create a custom CMS within Codeigniter, and I need a mechanism to route general pages to a default controller – for instance:

mydomain.com/about
mydomain.com/services/maintenance

These would be routed through my pagehandler controller. The default routing behaviour in Codeigniter is of course to route to a matching controller and method, so with the above examples it would require an About controller and a Services controller. This is obviously not a practical or even sensible approach.

I’ve seen the following solution to place in routes.php:

$route['^(?!admin|products).*'] = "pagehandler/$0";

But this poses it’s own problems I believe. For example, it simply looks for “products” in the request uri and if found routes to the Products controller – but what if we have services/products as a CMS page? Does this not then get routed to the products controller?

Is there a perfect approach to this? I don’t wish to have a routing where all CMS content is prefixed with the controller name, but I also need to be able to generically override the routing for other controllers.

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  1. Editorial Team

    If you use CodeIgniter 2.0 (which has been stable enough to use for months) then you can use:

    $route['404_override'] = 'pages';

    This will send anything that isn’t a controller, method or valid route to your pages controller. Then you can use whatever PHP you like to either show the page or show a much nicer 404 page.

    Read me guide explaining how you upgrade to CodeIgniter 2.0. Also, you might be interested in using an existing CMS such as PyroCMS which is now nearing the final v1.0 and has a massive following.

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