mod_rewrite what is it and what does it affect?

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mod_rewrite what is it and what does it affect? - richb201 - 11-17-2021

I was told by someone reviewing my issue with my website that the problem is with the lack of setting mod_rewrite. What is the affect of mod_rewrite on CI3 on an apache web server?

RE: mod_rewrite what is it and what does it affect? - includebeer - 11-17-2021

It allows you to redirect an url to a file without having the filename in the url. With CodeIgniter you need mod_rewrite to remove index.php from the url. The rules in .htacess will tell Apache to redirect the queries to index.php, which is the front controller. Read this page: https://codeigniter.com/userguide3/general/urls.html?highlight=mod_rewrite#removing-the-index-php-file

So you can have something like

Code:
http://localhost/blog/whatever

...instead of

Code:
http://localhost/index.php/blog/whatever