Unable to route to static PHP page in CodeIgniter - codeigniter

Question

I'm a newbie to CodeIgniter. In my 'views' folder, I've created 2 PHP pages - home.php and register.php. I've also created the header and footer PHP pages in a templates folder.
Here is my pages.php code which is the controller class:
<?php
class Pages extends CI_Controller
{
public function view($page)
{
if(!file_exists(APPPATH.'/views/pages/'.$page.'.php'))
{
show_404();
}
$data['title'] = ucfirst($page);
$this->load->view('templates/header', $data);
$this->load->view('pages/'.$page, $data);
$this->load->view('templates/footer', $data);
}
}
and here is my routes.php code:
$route['register'] = "pages/view/register";
$route['default_controller'] = 'pages/view/home';
I have not yet written anything into the .htaccess file.
My project home directory is 'ED'
I am able to navigate to the home page with this URL: http://localhost/ED
However I'm unable to navigate to the registration page with these URLs:
localhost/ED/register
or
localhost/ED/register.php
Please help as to how can I achieve this.

Answer 1

You have to have the index.php by default because according to CodeIgniter URLs
By default, the index.php file will be included in your URLs:
example.com/index.php/news/article/my_article
So if you want to remove the index.php, you can follow this simple step:
You can easily remove this file by using a .htaccess file with some
simple rules. Here is an example of such a file, using the "negative"
method in which everything is redirected except the specified items:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php|images|robots\.txt)
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php/$1 [L]
In the above example, any HTTP
request other than those for index.php, images, and robots.txt is
treated as a request for your index.php file.
Just put your .htaccess file(with the mod rewrite) in you main appplication folder and voila it's done.
What I did with my .htaccess was this one:
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /name_of_your_codeigniter_folder/
#Removes access to the system folder by users.
#Additionally this will allow you to create a System.php controller,
#previously this would not have been possible.
#'system' can be replaced if you have renamed your system folder.
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^system.*
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php?/$1 [L]
#When your application folder isn't in the system folder
#This snippet prevents user access to the application folder
#Submitted by: Fabdrol
#Rename 'application' to your applications folder name.
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^application.*
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php?/$1 [L]
#Checks to see if the user is attempting to access a valid file,
#such as an image or css document, if this isn't true it sends the
#request to index.php
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?/$1 [L]
</IfModule>
<IfModule !mod_rewrite.c>
# If we don't have mod_rewrite installed, all 404's
# can be sent to index.php, and everything works as normal.
# Submitted by: ElliotHaughin
ErrorDocument 404 /index.php
</IfModule>