codeigniter index.php removal - codeigniter

Question

I have a multi city application and have the following setup for my application
This is outside the server root
framework
backend
frontend
CI_2.0.1
system
Now in server root i have 2 folders to represent 2 cities
html
city1
city1.php
city2
city2.php
I need to add a rule to get rid of the .php in the url so it looks more like
http://example.in/city1/search
http://example.in/city2/search
Or a rule to completely get rid of the index.php file

Answer 1

To index.php and some more .htaccess trick I use this code (CI 2):
# Deny OR Allow Folder Indexes.
# Since we disable access to PHP files you
# can leave this on without worries.
# OR better yet, create a .htaccess file in
# the dir you want to allow browsing and
# set it to +Indexes
Options -Indexes
Options +FollowSymLinks
# Set the default file for indexes
DirectoryIndex index.php
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
# mod_rewrite rules
RewriteEngine on
# If a controler can't be found - then issue a 404 error from PHP
# Error messages (via the "error" plugin)
# ErrorDocument 403 /index.php/403/
# ErrorDocument 404 /index.php/404/
# ErrorDocument 500 /index.php/500/
# Deny any people (or bots) from the following sites: (to stop spam comments)
# RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} nienschanz\.ru [NC,OR]
# RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} porn\.com
# RewriteRule .* - [F]
# Note: if you are having trouble from a certain URL just
# add it above to forbide all visitors from that site.
# You can also uncomment this if you know the IP:
# Deny from 192.168.1.1
# If the file is NOT the index.php file
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !index.php
# Hide all PHP files so none can be accessed by HTTP
RewriteRule (.*)\.php$ index.php/$1
# If the file/dir is NOT real go to index
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/$1 [QSA,L]
</IfModule>
# If Mod_ewrite is NOT installed go to index.php
<IfModule !mod_rewrite.c>
ErrorDocument 404 index.php
</IfModule>
P.S. I think that I didn't get quite clearly your problem with .php files. But if you haven't already, you'd look at native CI routing system it may solve your problem with another approach)

Answer 2

Let’s start with our big URL:
http://mycustomproject.com/index.php/webpages/view/my-url-title-of-the-post
The first thing that you usually do for your Codeigniter project is to remove the index.php file from the URL. To do it so, it’s really easy:
1st step
Add this code to your .htaccess file to your root of your project.
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
# Turn on URL rewriting
RewriteEngine On
# If your website begins from a folder e.g localhost/my_project then
# you have to change it to: RewriteBase /my_project/
# If your site begins from the root e.g. example.local/ then
# let it as it is
RewriteBase /
# Protect application and system files from being viewed when the index.php is missing
RewriteCond $1 ^(application|system|private|logs)
# Rewrite to index.php/access_denied/URL
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/access_denied/$1 [PT,L]
# Allow these directories and files to be displayed directly:
RewriteCond $1 ^(index\.php|robots\.txt|favicon\.ico|public|assets|css|js|images)
# No rewriting
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ - [PT,L]
# Rewrite to index.php/URL
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/$1 [PT,L]
</IfModule>
After the creation of the .htaccess file your project structure will have to look like this:
website_folder/
–––– application/
–––– assets/
–––– system/
–––– user_guide/
---- .htaccess <-------------------------
–––– index.php
–––– license.txt
2nd step
Now go to : application/config/config.php and change the:
$config['index_page'] = 'index.php';
to
$config['index_page'] = '';
So now your URL will look like this:
http://mycustomproject.com/webpages/view/my-url-title-of-the-post