Question

Lets say I have a controller ‘standard’ with an action ‘main’.

If I go to http://www.myapp.com/standard/main it will invoke the main action in the standard controller.

Now if I want to change the URL I go into the routes.php and set sth like the following:

$route[‘welcome’] = “standard/main”;

Now I can visit http://www.myapp.com/welcome and it will invoke the same action.

However it is still possible to visit http://www.myapp.com/standard/main. I now have two routes which lead to the same controller action.

Is this the usual way or should I somehow disable the now unwanted http://www.myapp.com/standard/main route? If so, how would I do that?

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

That is completely for you to decide the default behavior. If you decide to disable the original url, you can write something like

$route['standard/main'] = 'standard/404';

Or any custom location, it depends on your project and how you wish it should look like, for example you can ‘block’ any method from being accessed directly:

$route['standard/(:any)'] = 'standard/404';

But bear in mind, if you route like you did $route['welcome'] = "standard/main";, then you should always remember that the function $this->uri->segment(n) will show different values, for example if I will go to url yoursite.com/welcome/123, the value of $this->uri->segment(2) will be 123, but if I visit the original URL yoursite.com/standard/main/123, it’s value will change to main.

Bear that in mind and decide for yourself!