Question

If I have a controller called articles, which has a method called view_articles, a user can type in http://example.com/articles/view_articles/some-post and have it return a page.

I have specified a route to be http://example.com/article/post-name. How can I make it so that only the URL specified in the route is visible? Is there a way for articles/view_articles/some-post to show a 404 instead of showing the same page as the route URL?

I am trying to prevent duplication for SEO purposes.

Answer 1

Use $this->uri->segment(n) as part of the URI class inside of view_articles to redirect traffic to your route if the URI contains view_articles as it’s second segment.