How to remove index.php from CodeIgniter URL in Ubuntu

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In application/config/config.php change:

$config['index_page']='index.php';

to:

$config['index_page']='';

 

Create or modify .htaccess in project root with following content.

# Customized error messages.
ErrorDocument 404 /index.php
# Set the default handler.
DirectoryIndex index.php
# Various rewrite rules.
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
  RewriteEngine on
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
  RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?/$1 [L,QSA]
</IfModule>

Also allow overriding htaccess in your apache

/etc/apache2/sites-available/default

and edit the file & change to

AllowOverrideAll

and

Restart Apache

 

sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 reload

or:

sudo service apache2 reload

or:

sudo /etc/init.d/httpd reload