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Question

Directory structure (public_html)

public html
htpasswds
application
    .htacess
cgi-bin
system
user_guide
index.php

Configuration file looks like this:

$config['base_url'] = 'http://www.example.com/index.php/';
$config['index_page'] = 'index.php?';
$config['uri_protocol'] = 'AUTO';
$config['allow_get_array']      = TRUE;
$config['enable_query_strings'] = FALSE;

.htaccess file

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php?$1 [L]

route.php

$route['default_controller'] = 'welcome';

Under application->controllers I have two PHP files, welcome and about with methods in them.

Below are the links I am generating, which are

<li><a href='./welcome'>Home</a>
<li><a href='./welcome/first'>first</a></li>    
<li><a href='./welcome/second'>second</a></li>
<li><a href='./third'>Third</a></li>
<li><a href='./fourth>Four</a></li>
<li><a href='./five'>Five</a></li>
<li><a href='./six'>Six</a></li>

If I manually type http://www.example.com/index.php/welcome/second, I can access the page. But I don't know how to generate the links for the same, and how to get rid of index.php in the URL.

Answer 1

It's better to use the Anchor function for generating links. See documentation here.

The htaccess should remove the index.php before the url, and you should change this line to:

 $config['index_page'] = '';