Cannot remove index.php from my urls in Codeigniter

Question

I am using codeigniter and when I set up the website I added necessary code in my .htaccess file to remove index.php (default) from my urls. I just happened to replace my public_html folder from a back up file of my website. Since I did that, I cannot get any of the links on home page to work unless insert index.php in the url between the domain name and the rest of the url as in http://www.obsia.com/index.php/contact/ instead of http://www.obsia.com/contact/ and it works. So, in my config file within the application folder, I changed

$config['index_page'] = "";

to

$config['index_page'] = "index.php";

and all the links seem to work now. But how do I remove index.php from the URLs.

Here is what my .htaccess code looks like:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase / 
RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php|public|user_guide|robots\.txt|css)
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php?/$1 [L]

Can anyone point me in the right direction. It will much appreciated.

Regards, G

nitro2k01 nitro2k01 · Accepted Answer · 2011-03-22T23:10:00

What yo want to do can be done this way:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase / 
# Static content. Rewrite to - (don't change) and mark as last rule.
RewriteRule !^(index\.php|public|user_guide|robots\.txt|css) - [L]

# Do the rewrite.
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php?/$1 [L]

However, a slightly better way of doing that is this:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase / 
# Only do the rewrite under the condition that the requested URL isn't a (real) file.
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php?/$1 [L]

Cannot remove index.php from my urls in Codeigniter

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