route value can be used in URL

The only fix for this i could find about this issue is https://stackoverflow.com/a/35290306/8832064, more people struggle with this issue for indexation.

Thanks for replying.

This is how I addressed the issue.

I decided on a convention that the $route first segment should always be different than the class name to be called.

Then I update the class constructor to check the uri_string()

So.. $route['products/get/all'] = "main/getAllProducts";

PHP Code:

class Main extends CI_Controller
{
  public function __construct()
  {
    parent::__construct();
    $controller = explode('/', uri_string())[0];
    if ($controller == 'main') {
      //-- take appropriate action
    } 


This does not work with cached pages as they don't go down this "route"  but I'm okay with that.