Using htaccess to remove sub-directories from URL in CodeIgniter

Question

My CodeIgniter project is placed inside sub-folders and I want to hide those two sub-folders with .htaccess.

Everything is working fine but my current URL looks like this:

example.com/folder1/folder2/ci_project/class/function/$id

I want this to be:

example.com/class/function/$id

Now, I am using this simple .htaccess code in order to remove the index.php from URL:

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on

# Send request via index.php
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/$1 [L]

Any Ideas?

when i use the following code in htaccess file inside folder1/folder2/ci_project, it does hide the sub directories but i get the error "Object not found"

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/folder1/folder2/ci_project/

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /folder1/folder2/ci_project/index.php/$1 [L]

Place the index.php file outside in root and set the application and system path in it to the subfolder. — Nish, Aug 16 '13 at 09:56
Any feedback would be appreciated. Could you give the current answer a try? — Hashem Qolami, Aug 22 '13 at 14:33

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 16 '13 at 12:44

Move your current .htaccess file from your ci_project/ to the root of domain, and replace these code inside it:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    Options +FollowSymLinks
    RewriteEngine on

    RewriteCond $1 !^(robots\.txt|favicon\.ico|public)
    RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /folder1/folder2/ci_project/index.php/$1 [L]
</IfModule>

In this case, you should place your public files in a folder like public at the root of the domain.

You should add other folders (like public) to RewriteCond if you don’t want them to be treated by RewriteRule.

If multiple application are exist in the same domain, you might want to consider this option:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    Options +FollowSymLinks
    RewriteEngine on

    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /folder1/folder2/ci_project/index.php/$1 [L]
</IfModule>

Using htaccess to remove sub-directories from URL in CodeIgniter

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