CodeIgniter: Default controller

[TheServant]

Hi all,
I am trying to do something in CI which I cannot find any documentation for. I have set up my .htaccess so that if a file does not exist, and no controller/function is called it goes to the home page, but what I want is this:
Instead of http://mysite.com/controller/function/variable
I just use http://mysite.com/variable and it simply uses the default controller and index function.

The reason is, I am creating a CMS where pages will be retrieved like:
http://mysite.com/page/display/home
But I would much prefer:
http://mysite.com/home
http://mysite.com/contact
http://mysite.com/about

Anyone done this or know how to?

[Dormilich]

basicly something like this

RewriteRule ^([a-z])$ page/display/$1

you might add your personal constraints, though.

[TheServant]

I have been trying to do something like that, however my mod rewrite skills are a bit behind. I have this:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^(application) - [F,L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/page/index/$0 [PT, L]

Just checks if the file/directory exists, if not, then it should redirect to mysite.com/index.php/page/index/page_requested but it doesn't and I get a 500 error. Any help?

[Dormilich]

don’t know too much mod_rewrite myself…

a) check the syntax (manual)

b) check if you are allowed to use mod_rewrite. wrap the code in

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
</IfModule>

c) use a RewriteBase

d) (has nothing to do with the error) check for a / in the variable string (i.e. use a different RegEx)

[TheServant]

Well I don't know how to do this. I have realized that my removal of 'index.php/' with the following in my htaccess is not working:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^(application|system) - [F,L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule (.*) index.php/$0 [PT,L]

Yes I have already changed my config file so that $config['index_page'] = "";

Anyone solved a similar problem?

[TheServant]

SOLVED!!! I changed this in my config:

$config['uri_protocol']    = "AUTO";

~to~

$config['uri_protocol']    = "ORIG_PATH_INFO";

Don't know what it does, but it works!


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Edit:
I have just changed it back to AUTO as I found it stuffs up the search engine friendly URL's, and found another solution. htaccess was changed to include a "?" like so:

RewriteRule (.*) index.php?/$0 [PT,L]

[Markus]

CI has this functionality built in: routing. In your config/routes.php file, try some thing like this:

$route['(a-z+)/?'] = "page/display/$1";
 

[TheServant]

Ha! Nice work Markus, I was trying to get that to work before with no luck, but tried a little harder and voila!

I have another small problem though... Now none of my error pages work:
The page you requested, 403_shtml, could not be found. <-- This is my error display message.
I have realised that if I run everything through my other function, these pages won't work. Any ideas?