How should I minimize url in CodeIgniter 2.2.3 - codeigniter

Question

I am new in codeigniter and I love to use it in my future projects too.
I having a big time problem to make my url user friendly.
I have a website running that has a lot of pages, so URLs get too big and they look too bad.
So what I want to do, is shorten my URLs. For example:
www.abc.com/index.php/main/home
I want to make something like this:
www.abc.com/home
So my question is, How should I do this thing in CodeIgniter 2.2.3 ? Is there any demo?
I was see so many links for it but it can not full fill my requirement so please help me..

Answer 1

You can use routes for this purpose
To remove index.php use .htaccess with following code
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/$1 [L]
and in config.php
$config['uri_protocol'] = 'AUTO';
now in your routes application/config/routes.php
$route['home']='main/home';

Answer 2

To remove index.php, place .htaccess outside application folder (root)
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/$1 [L]
</IfModule>
To short URL, use config/routes.php
$route['home'] = "main/home";
Ex:
To use this I'm Moving

Answer 3

Firstly i create .htaccess file and put this code in it..
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /xyz.co/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?/$1 [L]
</IfModule>
than go to application/config/routes.php and put below code.
$default_controller = "auth";
$controller_exceptions = array('main');
$route['default_controller'] = $default_controller;
$route["^((?!\b".implode('\b|\b', $controller_exceptions)."\b).*)$"] = $default_controller.'/$1';
$route['404_override'] = 'error';
$route['translate_uri_dashes'] = FALSE;
and in config.php
$config['uri_protocol'] = 'AUTO';
thats all...