Quick htaccess/redirect question

[eluser]dimensionmedia[/eluser]
Got the initial htaccess code from the wiki working great. My CI site currently resides in a subdirectory on the main site - my .htaccess file lives in that directory. so:

www.mysite.com/subdirectory/index.php/home/category/clothing

becomes

www.mysite.com/subdirectory/home/category/clothing

however, I want the above url to become this:

www.mysite.com/subdirectory/clothing.php

basically take the controller "home" and "category" out of the url.

i also want the ability to add another uri and maintain the flow, for example:

www.mysite.com/subdirectory/home/category/clothing/mens

becomes

www.mysite.com/subdirectory/clothing/mens.php

This is my .htaccess file right now (standard from the wiki i think):

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /onlinecatalogs/

#Removes access to the system folder by users.
#Additionally this will allow you to create a System.php controller,
#previously this would not have been possible.
#'system' can be replaced if you have renamed your system folder.
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^system.*
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php/$1 [L]

#Checks to see if the user is attempting to access a valid file,
#such as an image or css document, if this isn't true it sends the
#request to index.php
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/$1 [L]
</IfModule>

<IfModule !mod_rewrite.c>
# If we don't have mod_rewrite installed, all 404's
# can be sent to index.php, and everything works as normal.
# Submitted by: ElliotHaughin

ErrorDocument 404 /index.php
</IfModule>

Any help would be greatly appreciated! :-)

[eluser]dimensionmedia[/eluser]
Still having problems. Anyone a htaccess guru?

[eluser]SpooF[/eluser]

Code:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /onlinecatalogs/

#Removes access to the system folder by users.
#Additionally this will allow you to create a System.php controller,
#previously this would not have been possible.
#’system’ can be replaced if you have renamed your system folder.
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^system.*
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php/$1 [L]

#Checks to see if the user is attempting to access a valid file,
#such as an image or css document, if this isn’t true it sends the
#request to index.php
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/home/catagory/$1 [L]
</IfModule>

<IfModule !mod_rewrite.c>
# If we don’t have mod_rewrite installed, all 404’s
# can be sent to index.php, and everything works as normal.
# Submitted by: ElliotHaughin

ErrorDocument 404 /index.php
</IfModule>

Try that.

[eluser]ontguy[/eluser]
There's an alternative to using .htaccess for this. You could add a url suffix in config.php ($config['url_suffix']) and then use routes to remove the "home" from the url.

[eluser]dimensionmedia[/eluser]
I believe it works! Thanks!

Actually i'm noticing the changes between this and the oringial .htaccess file that I was trying, and the other file i was playing with earlier today. I should be able to make adjustments, learning this as I good along. So i'm walking away an educated coder on this. :-)

[eluser]Unknown[/eluser]
[quote author="SpooF" date="1218182757"]

Code:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /onlinecatalogs/

#Removes access to the system folder by users.
#Additionally this will allow you to create a System.php controller,
#previously this would not have been possible.
#’system’ can be replaced if you have renamed your system folder.
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^system.*
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php/$1 [L]

#Checks to see if the user is attempting to access a valid file,
#such as an image or css document, if this isn’t true it sends the
#request to index.php
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/home/catagory/$1 [L]
</IfModule>

<IfModule !mod_rewrite.c>
# If we don’t have mod_rewrite installed, all 404’s
# can be sent to index.php, and everything works as normal.
# Submitted by: ElliotHaughin

ErrorDocument 404 /index.php
</IfModule>

Try that.[/quote]

Hi I try to use your configuration to create a site into my localhost with this configuration:

The index.php file it's in /mysite/system/application/views/index.php
why? because with this way users cannot enter to other folders

the rules of the .httaccess are:

Code:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /mysite/


RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php|images|robots\.txt|css)
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ system/application/views/index.php/$1 [L]

So, my problem is the url like http://localhost/mysite/css/common/reset.css for some reason I can't read the file reset.css

Can you help me??

Thanks!!!

[eluser]Sean Gates[/eluser]
[quote author="Eaven" date="1229671793"]
Hi I try to use your configuration to create a site into my localhost with this configuration:

The index.php file it's in /mysite/system/application/views/index.php
why? because with this way users cannot enter to other folders

the rules of the .httaccess are:

Code:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /mysite/


RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php|images|robots\.txt|css)
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ system/application/views/index.php/$1 [L]

So, my problem is the url like http://localhost/mysite/css/common/reset.css for some reason I can't read the file reset.css

Can you help me??

Thanks!!![/quote]

Eaven,

Your problem is that

Code:

system/application/views/index.php

is not the location of the root of your site. The root of the CodeIgniter site is actually the index.php file on the same level as the system folder. So, it would look like this:

Code:

localhost
    /mysite
        /common
            /css
        /index.php
        /system
            /application

Hope this helps.

Note: I just noticed how old this post is. Ha!