Codeigniter and .htaccess mod rewrite

Question

I am having an issue with mod rewrite. I am also a total beginner to it. I am using CodeIgniter and trying to rewrite the following:

http://url.dev/news/news_selection?item=59

to look like this:

http://url.dev/news/news_selection/59/

I have followed a tutorial on: https://www.addedbytes.com/articles/for-beginners/url-rewriting-for-beginners/ (more specifically the : "Patterns and Replacements" section)

The issue is I write my RewriteRule as below and it still does not rewrite the url after going to the page (eg. http://url.dev/news/news_selection?item=59)

RewriteRule    ^news/news_selection/([0-9]+)/?$    news_selection?item=$1    [NC,L]

Any advice on where I am going wrong? Thank you.

I am not sure if the routes and controller affect this issue but I added them for reference below.

In my routes for codeIgniter I have

//_News Folder
$route['news/(:any)'] = 'pages/view2/_news/$1';

1: _news is the folder
2: news_selection is the php file
3: pages is the controller

My controller has the following function for view2:

public function view2($sub ='', $page='')
  {
          if ( ! file_exists(APPPATH.'/views/pages/'.$sub.'/'.$page.'.php'))
          {
                  // Whoops, we don't have a page for that!
                  show_404();
          }

          $data['title'] = ucfirst($page); // Capitalize the first letter

          $this->load->view('templates/header', $data);
          $this->load->view('pages/'.$sub.'/'.$page.'.php', $data);
          $this->load->view('templates/footer', $data);
  }

The rest of my .htaccess:

Options -Indexes
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

#Removes access to the system folder by users.
#Additionally this will allow you to create a System.php controller,

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^system.*
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?/$1 [L]

#When your application folder isn't in the system folder

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^application.*
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]

# 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

Tai Le · Accepted Answer · 2017-07-16 01:36:10Z

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You just need this to use url as above:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php|images|captcha|css|js|robots\.txt)
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php/$1 [L]

You can use this for all controller. This file .htaccess is in application folder.

answered Jul 16, 2017 at 1:36

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CrazyGrunt Over a year ago

Can you please explain a little more in depth? The website works fine with: url.dev/news/news_selection?item=59 as a url. I just want to clean it up where you enter: url.dev/news/news_selection/59 and it rewrites it for passing.

Tai Le Over a year ago

I don't know much about this. But I read an article about CodeIgniter URL, if you set $config['enable_query_strings'] = TRUE; it will display an url like a query string. Because the first time I use CI, my url is normal,not like a string. You can read more at: link

CrazyGrunt Over a year ago

Thank you for the help. This isn't the answer for me as it will break form helper along with a few other things. I think this is a different way to go about accessing your model and views via variables. I finally did figure out how I had to do it and have posted my answer below.

CrazyGrunt · Accepted Answer · 2017-07-16 03:24:16Z

I figured it out after about 10 hours of trying everything today.

I decided that it may be a routing issue with CI and decided to try passing my variable from the url in the cleaned up format. So...

If I enter: http://url.dev/news/news_selection/59

It will work with the following route:

//_News Folder
$route['news/news_selection/(:num)'] = 'pages/view_test/_news/news_selection/$1';

and controller:

  public function view_test($sub='', $page='', $var1='')
  {
          if ( ! file_exists(APPPATH.'/views/pages/'.$sub.'/'.$page.'.php'))
          {
                  // Whoops, we don't have a page for that!
                  show_404();
          }

          $data['item'] = $var1;

          $this->load->view('templates/header');
          $this->load->view('pages/'.$sub.'/'.$page.'.php', $data);
          $this->load->view('templates/footer');
  }

By using these I can pass the page number as $var1 and then pass it on to my view via $data. Then I picked up $data['item'] as $item in my news_selection.php page and passed it to my model for processing. Reference to CI Manual for this.

After that the page processes like it normally would have.

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