cannot get rid of index.php from url in CodeIgniter - php

Question

I'm new to CodeIgniter and I'm trying to figure out why the standard methods that I have seen both on the codeigniter site and here on SO aren't working for me to get rid of index.php from the url in my project.
I'm running CentOs, and the path to my project looks like:
/var/www/html/myproject
I have made sure that mod_rewrite is enabled in httpd.conf by checking via phpinfo()
My .htacess file looks like this:
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /myproject/
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
my config.php looks like this (I have also tried PATH_INFO and REQUEST_URI for uri_protocol):
$config['base_url'] = 'http://localhost/myproject/';
$config['index_page'] = '';
$config['uri_protocol'] = 'AUTO';
My routes.php looks like this:
$route['default_controller'] = "site";
$route['404_override'] = '';
$route['site/price/(.*)'] = "site/price/$1";
The signature for the site controller's price action is this:
public function price($a, $b, $c) {
//code
}
When I go to
http://localhost/myproject/index.php/site/price/32137/2/1
the price function is reached successfully, but when I try
http://localhost/myproject/site/price/32137/2/1
I get an error page saying
The requested URL /myproject/site/price/32137/2/1 was not found on this server.
Am I missing something?
Thanks in advance
EDIT:
If it's any help, I can get to my project's site/index method with just the url: localhost/myproject but none of the other actions appear reachable.

Answer 1

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /myproject/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php/$1 [L]

Answer 2

Use the exact .htaccess mod_rewrite config provided in the docs for Codeigniter
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php|images|robots\.txt)
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php/$1 [L]
Works for me every time.

Answer 3

There are 2 parts to removing index.php from the url:
1) Tell .htaccess to route around index.php. Something like this:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php?/$1 [L]
2) Edit your system/cms/config/config.php configuration file and update this setting from:
$config['index_page'] = 'index.php';
to
$config['index_page'] = '';
Here's a sample .htaccess file I use:
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
Options +FollowSymLinks -Indexes
RewriteEngine On
# Keep people out of codeigniter directory and Mercurial data
RedirectMatch 403 ^/(/codeigniter|\.git|\.hg).*$
#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} ^codeigniter.*
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>
ErrorDocument 404 public/index.php
</IfModule>

Answer 4

how about this
.htaccess
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule .* index.php/$0 [PT,L]