I need to remove index.php from site_url() return value
I don't want search engines cache my URLs contain index.php.
I removed index.php from url by setting .htaccess file but still not working.
For example, when I use site_url() in part of my project, search engines cache the URL like http://url/index.php/controller. I remove index.php from site_url function in system/helper but I think the redirect and form_open functions don't work properly.
write in your .htaccess file
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule .* index.php/$0 [PT,L]
And set index_page config in config.php
$config['index_page'] = '';
You can use base_url() function:
echo base_url(); // http://example.com/website
echo site_url(); // http://example.com/website/index.php
base_url() will return http://example.com/website/index.php aswell, if you have $config['index_page'] = 'index.php' set in config.phpThe provided answers seems to refer to an older version of CodeIgniter now the configuration are slightly different
/app/Config/App.phppublic $indexPage Attribute and change it to:public $indexPage = '';
/public/.htaccessRewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^([\s\S]*)$ index.php/$1 [L,NC,QSA]
Using .env for configuration
Alternativelly you can use the .env configuration file
.envapp.indexPage = ''
You can then use methods like without the index.php as trailing file
site_url()
echo anchor('news/local/123', 'My News', 'title="News title"');