.htaccess to remove /index/ action from URL

[eluser]n0xie[/eluser]
[quote author="Ben Edmunds" date="1254257902"]No thats not what I'm looking for. I'm not explaining it correctly...

n0xie is right that CI automatically routes to the index method if no method is supplied in the url; basically what I want to do is if the method = index then remove the method so the url only contains the controller (class) and CI will automatically route to the index method.

Make sense yet?


Thanks,[/quote]
No not really. You want to filter the /index if it is given, but why would you do that. There only way an user would ever go to /controller/index is if YOU directed him to there. If you would direct your user to /controller the whole issue wouldn't be... an issue.

So I really don't understand why you would explicitly route someone to somewhere when the chance that someone would accidentally get there in the first place is close to zero.

Especially if there is no other reason than SEO... If the SEO guy is REALLY that worried you could just as easy use canonical tags so spiders would know that it's not duplicate content but the same resource with 2 url's.