Codeigniter: Remove controller from URL and disable access through the original path

Question

Original URL

mydomain.com/main/portfolio

Now I need to remove the controller name from the URL with the below Route which i have done successfully:

//Controller Name: main
$route['(:any)'] = "main/$1";

My new URL is good:

mydomain.com/portfolio

But the original URL is still accessible which I don't want for SEO purposes:

mydomain.com/main/portfolio

How can I have my good URL run as normal and block the old URL.

Thanks.

you can use .htaccess for this

Pathik Vejani
– Pathik Vejani

2016-04-22 06:50:03 +00:00
Commented Apr 22, 2016 at 6:50 — Pathik Vejani
– Pathik Vejani, Commented Apr 22, 2016 at 6:50

Zaragoli · Accepted Answer · 2016-04-22 10:16:22Z

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You can create a not found page and redirect unwanted routes to that. For instance you can create error controller:

class Error extends CI_Controller {     
    public function error_404() {
        // send 404 header
        $this->output->set_status_header('404');
        // load a custom not found page view template
        $this->load->view('error_404');
    }        
}

Then in the routes.php you can catch those URLs which contains the "main/" like this:

// this should be placed above the (:any) route
$route['main/(:any)'] = 'error/error_404';
$route['(:any)'] = "main/$1";

edited Apr 22, 2016 at 10:16

answered Apr 22, 2016 at 10:11

Zaragoli

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Andrew Savetchuk Over a year ago

Is that ok for SEO?

Tpojka · Accepted Answer · 2016-04-22 17:55:01Z

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RedirectMatch "^/main/(.*)" "http://www.example.com/$1"

More examples available here.

answered Apr 22, 2016 at 17:55

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