URL rewriting using Codeigniter for specific rule - php

On my local server, I have setup a website using Codeigniter which opens up fine using below URL
I have a different kind of query regarding rewriting URL
http://localhost/mywebsite
Actually the real URL is below
http://localhost/mywebsite/page/
Which I want it to work as root url as
http://localhost/mywebsite
So I have done it by adding it as default controller in config.php
But now I have another URL as
http://localhost/mywebsite/page/mypagename
Which should open as
http://localhost/mywebsite/mypagename
How can I do it?


You can define a custom route in /system/application/config/routes.php - for example:
$route['abc'] = 'controller_name/abc';
Then, http://mydemosite.com/abc
goes to http://mydemosite.com/controller_name/abc
see https://ellislab.com/codeigniter/user-guide/general/routing.html for more information of URI Routing.
I hope this can be helping you.


I got it solved using routing method as below under config/routes.php
$route['([^/]+)/?'] = 'page/$1';

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page before url / change url

I created a login website, and my URL became like this
http://localhost/koperasi/index.php/cukl/index
how to make my url like...
http://localhost/koperasi/index.php/cukl
because I want to make a crud program but I think I have a problem in the url
**
my previous program using http://localhost/lee/index.php/buku so my page can entered CRUD on http://localhost/lee/index.php/buku/ubah
but now my newer program url is http://localhost/koperasi/index.php/cukl/index
how and where to change the url? is in the controller? model? or view?

I think, firstly you have to add an htaccess file which will remove index.php in your URL.
and inside the route.php file, you can define a new URL which you want.
Like this.
$route['cukl'] = 'cukl/index';

Codeigniter URL ReWriting Issue

I am working a codeigniter project. for example I have a controller Blog and a method category with param.
When i go to a link
Developer Blog
it works fine. which redirect to a page developer blog.
Is it possible to rewrite the url as domain.com/blog/developer-blog dynamically ? Thank you.

Open your application/config/routes.php and try following (if you want exact as mentioned in question)
$route['blog/developer-blog'] = 'blog/category/2';
$route['blog/user-blog'] = 'blog/category/3';
for dynamic routing you may use this
$route['blog/developer-blog/(:num)'] = 'blog/category/$1';
$route['blog/user-blog/(:num)'] = 'blog/category/$1';
so your URL now should be looks like https://domain.com/blog/developer-blog/1, https://domain.com/blog/developer-blog/2
or https://domain.com/blog/user-blog/1, https://domain.com/blog/user-blog/2 etc
for more see http://www.codeigniter.com/user_guide/general/routing.html

How to remove a word from the url in codeigniter without using .htaccess

I have a site with urls:
http://example.com/controller-name/page/about
http://example.com/controller-name/page/contactus
http://example.com/controller-name/page/services
But I need the urls like:
http://example.com/controller-name/about
http://example.com/controller-name/contactus
http://example.com/controller-name/services
How to do this in Codeigniter?

You can configure URI Routing to achieve this. Refer Codeigniter documentation for a detailed explanation.
You can map a URL string to its corresponding controller class/method

Hope this one help you.
$route['controller-name/(:any)'] = "controller-name/your method";

Creating short url for multiple controller?

For my current project in codeignitor I needed to make user profile like this
http://domain.com/userid
Then I tried to add this in router.php
$route['(:any)'] = 'profile/user/$1';
Which is working fine. Now I want to make another URL for language like this
http://domain.com/es
http://domain.com/fr
As for both url uri segments are first, when I type
http://domain.com/es
I see the page of
http://domain.com/userid
I am using .htaccess file for removing index.php in codeignitor. Is there any help how can I achive this task in making shot url for multiple controller. Either with .htaccess or router.php?

Because the routes system works from the top down, if you have multiple rules that can match a url, it picks the first one. So you could do:
$route['(es|fr|en)'] = 'language/$1';
$route['(:any)'] = 'profile/user/$1';
If the first rule matches, it runs, otherwise it tests the profile rule.
You will definitely continue running into issues though with that profile rule, and it would be easier if you did something like:
$route['users/(:any)'] = 'profile/user/$1';
That way it would be more clear what the url is doing, and it will help you for when you are writing rules in the future.

How to solve the case when users surf to index.php

In Zend framework, using the MVC, if A user surf explicitly to http://base/url/index.php instead of just http://base/url, The system thinks the real base url is http://base/url/index.php/ and according to that calculates all the URLs in the system.
So, if I have a controller XXX and action YYY The link will be
http://base/url/index.php/XXX/YYY which is of course wrong.
I am currently solving this by adding a line at index.php:
$_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"]=str_replace('index.php','',$_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"]);
I am wondering if there is a built-in way in ZF to solve this.

You can do it with ZF by using Zend_Controller_Router_Route_Static (phew!), example:
Read the manual page linked above, there are some pretty good examples to be found.
$route = new Zend_Controller_Router_Route_Static(
'index.php',
array('controller' => 'index', 'action' => 'index')
);
$router->addRoute('index', $route);
Can't say I totally disagree with your approach. That said, others may well point out 5000 or so disadvantages. Good luck with that.

Well it really depends on how you want to solve this. As you know the Zend Frameworks build on the front controller pattern, where each request that does not explicitly reference a file in the /public directory is redirected to index.php. So you could basically solve this in a number of ways:
Edit the .htaccess file (or server configuration directive) to rewrite the request to the desired request:
RewriteRule (.*index.php) /error/forbidden?req=$1 // Rewrite to the forbidden action of the error controller.
RewriteRule index.php /index // Rewrite the request to the main controller and action
Add a static route in your bootstrapper as suggested by karim79.

Use mod_rewrite. Something like this should do it:
RewriteRule ^index.php/(.*)$ /$1 [r=301,L]

I don't think you should use a route to do this.
It's kind of a generic problem which shouldn't be solved by this way.
You better should have to do it in your .htaccess, which will offer you a better & easier way to redirect the user to where you want, like to an error page, or to the index.
Here is the documentation page for the mod_rewrite

I've never faced this problem using Zend Framework. just do not link to index.php file. that's it. and when your are giving your application's address to users, just tell them to go to http://base/url/
when the user enters http://base/url/ her request URI is base/url and your .htaccess file routs the request to index.php, but the request IS base/url. you do not need to remove 'index.php' from the request. because it is not there.
when you are trying to generate URLs for links and forms and ..., use the built-in url() view helper to generate your links. like this:
// in some view script
<a href="<?php
echo $this->url( array('controller'=>'targetController','action'=>'targetAction') );
?>" >click</a>
do not worry about the link. Zend will generate a URL for you.

The way I look at this is that if I have a website powered by PHP and a user goes to http://site/index.aspx then I would send a 404.
Even though index.php does exist in theory, it's not a valid URL in my application so I would send a 404 in this case too.

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