Question

There are many tutorials that talk about deleting index.php from the url. But I want one step forward of it.

The link is: http://www.example.com/index.php/controller/function/single-variable
I want it like: http://www.example.com/some-name-that-i-put/single-variable

I cannot find a tutorial to do such a thing. How to do it?

Answer 1

i wasnt sure whether you were wanting to do direct URL rewrites how CI does it out of the box or not… but this is how you do URL Rewrites:

your class/function/id example.com/news/article/13 transposes to: example.com/class/function/ID

http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/general/urls.html

you can set this by doing two things:
in your config.php file under application/config/ edit these:

approx line 80: $config['uri_protocol'] = 'REQUEST_URI'; // i set this to request_URI as it always works for me..
approx line 93: $config['url_suffix'] = '.html'; // this is optional, if you want /13.html
approx line 62: $config['index_page'] = ''; //set this to blank

create a .htaccess in http root:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php|images|robots\.txt)
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php/$1 [L]

This is how you do URI Route changes

if you want to change the organization of the URI you can use URI Routes defined in routes.php as described here: http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/general/routing.html