Cleaner links with routing in codeigniter

Question

I want to do a dummy Netflix clone in Codeigniter, but i have problem with routes, for example, my route looks like this:

http://localhost/NotFlix/index.php/add_page

I would like it to be nicer like:

http://localhost/NotFlix/add_page

This is my link to site in header:

<a href="./index.php/add_page">Dodaj film</a>

And this is my route file:

$route['index.php/add_page'] = 'add_page';

Answer 1

You should change .htaccess file located root folder(not in the application folder). If there is no that file then pls create the file.

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule .* index.php?/$0 [PT,L]
</IfModule>

After then your router

$route['add_page'] = 'add_page';

your config file

$config['base_url'] = 'http://' . $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'];
$config['index_page'] = 'index.php/';

$config['uri_protocol'] = 'REQUEST_URI';

Then you can use a tag like the following.

<a href = "<?=base_url()?>add_pagex">Dodaj film</a>