codeigniter redirection of URL

Question

What is happening:- testurl.com/index.php/controller/method and testurl.com/controller/method, these both redirect to the same page that is index.php Requirement:- When somebody type testurl.com/index.php/controller/method/ the url must be change to testurl.com/controller/method after loading the same page that is index.php

They are loading same page currently but the url is not getting change.

Codeigniter is new for me I know its very simple task, but I am blank at this point. Any help will be appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

I assume you want to remove index.php from the url

first : in config file set $config['index_page'] to blank i.e

$config['index_page']='';

Second : place the .htacess file in the app root folder

.htaccess file content :-

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php|images|robots\.txt|css|img|js)
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ ./index.php/$1 [L]

get more info here : - Documentation

Answer 2

To check if the guy is at the index.php-Version of your URL you test your base_url:

if(strpos(current_url(), "index.php") !== false)

(as in [1])

Then you can redirect him to base_url()/uri_string() with:

redirect(base_url().'/'.uri_string()); 

to see more play around with the url-helper.

[1] http://ellislab.com/codeigniter/user-guide/helpers/url_helper.html