CodeIgniter and htaccess RewriteRule

Question

I have a controller named (for example) TheLink, and I can normally access it through mywebsite/index.php/TheLink. Is it possible to make a RewriteRule in htaccess to access it via mywebsite/index.php/The-Link without it redirecting to TheLink? So basically what I want it the URL to say mywebsite/index.php/The-Link (with dash) but use the TheLink controller. I've tried

RewriteRule ^The-Link$ index.php/TheLink [L]

but that just redirects me to the default CodeIgniter 404 Page

Waqar Alamgir · Answer 1 · 2012-11-22T14:38:44.157

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# To remove index.php from URL

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

Additionally if website is hosted in another directory not just root, add this:

RewriteBase /some_directory/

edited Nov 22 '12 at 14:38

answered Nov 22 '12 at 14:32

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Thanks for that, but that wasn't what I asked. My question was how to use dashes in the URL since controller classes obviously can't be named with dashes. Example: desired URL: .../My-Link/ ---- Controller name: MyLink – GTCrais Nov 22 '12 at 15:34

score 0 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:27

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Well, apparently this problem has nothing to do with htaccess and is solved in a completely different way. Solution found here:

Codeigniter Routes regex - using dashes in controller/method names

Edit: Also, a number of different solutions for this, including the one above, found here: http://ellislab.com/codeigniter/forums/viewthread/124396/

edited May 23 '17 at 12:27

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answered Nov 22 '12 at 15:40

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CodeIgniter and htaccess RewriteRule

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