How to Remove index.php From URL In Codeigniter

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In the CodeIgniter project, the index.php file will be included in the URL by default but to make it search engine friendly and user-friendly, we need to remove it. In this article, we will learn how to remove index.php in Codeigniter.

Why remove index.php?

Removing index.php makes the URL look cleaner and professional. The Codeigniter framework served all the views through the one file index.php. Without this file, no model/views/controller won’t work. We need to remove the index.php from URL with proper configuration or else it will show 404 page.

How to remove index.php?

1. Create a .htaccess file

Firstly we will need to create a .htaccess file in our project’s root directory or CodeIgniter directory. Creating a .htaccess file will allow us to modify our rewrite rules without accessing server configuration files. Because of this reason, .htaccess is critical to our web application’s security thus ensures that the file is hidden. htaccess is an acronym used for Hypertext Access, it is a configuration file that controls the directory “.htaccess”.

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