Question

I’m very new to Code Igniter (as in I just finished their “official” video tutorial), and I was wondering if there was a way to clean up the URLs just a little bit more.

Basically, is there some setting to keep the “index.php” out of the URL?

So instead of this…

http://localhost/codeigniter/index.php/blog/comments/

…you see this:

http://localhost/codeigniter/blog/comments/

Or do I have to rewrite the URLs myself with .htaccess?

Answer 1

Using an .htaccess is easier, other ways wouldn’t probably work on shared hosting I guess.
That would do I guess:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine On

 RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

    RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?/$1 [L]
</IfModule>