Redirect an entire site in CodeIgniter does not work

Question

I need to redirect an entire site to a specific controller (under_construction), but I do not want to put in all the pages a script to redirect.

I think, I might be able to do it in the .htaccess or in the routes of CodeIgniter. In the .htaccess I do not know how to work with regex or how to do it.

With routes I have tried the following:

$route['index.php/test'] = "under_construction";

But this doesn't work. Does not shows any response, doesn´t do anything of that I expected, that all pages go to the under_construction controller. I want to make this for a lot of controllers. Is there an easy way of doing this with regex?

looks like you want redirect all your controllers to under construction page? you can use 'hooks'. — ichadhr, Aug 22 '17 at 17:12
@ichadhr yes, that is what I want, redirect all my controllers to under construction page, but I do not know how use hooks — Mary, Aug 22 '17 at 17:57
Including `index.php` in routes is wrong. Please check the [docs](https://www.codeigniter.com/user_guide/general/routing.html). — Tpojka, Aug 22 '17 at 20:33

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 22 '17 at 17:51

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This works for me in .htaccess:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !index.php/under_construction$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://localhost/index.php/under_construction [L,R=302]

You really want to use .htaccess for best performance, and the 302 redirect says, "This redirect isn't permanent, so try the same request URI later".

answered Aug 22 '17 at 17:51

Brian Gottier

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I do this, but when I enter to a page know, it shows it – Mary Aug 22 '17 at 18:01
Is mod_rewrite enabled on your server? Is the cache cleared? – Brian Gottier Aug 22 '17 at 18:04
how can I know that?? – Mary Aug 22 '17 at 18:05
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7337724/how-to-check-whether-mod-rewrite-is-enable-on-server – Brian Gottier Aug 22 '17 at 18:07
I have a trouble now, the image doesn´t see – Mary Aug 22 '17 at 18:23
Try to add a line before RewriteRule: `RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !images [NC]` – Brian Gottier Aug 22 '17 at 19:57
Let us [continue this discussion in chat](http://chat.stackoverflow.com/rooms/152637/discussion-between-mary-and-brian-gottier). – Mary Aug 23 '17 at 12:03

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 22 '17 at 20:27

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With routing, you can do something like this. In APPATH.'config/routes.php':

$route['(:any)'] = 'wanted/controller/method';

Set this route just after default ones (that came with installation).

answered Aug 22 '17 at 20:27

Tpojka

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Imagine for a minute the duplicate content penalization by Google whenall of your pages look the same... – Brian Gottier Aug 23 '17 at 15:00
You are right. Best would be to set variable in `index.php` file and check in, say, `APPPATH.'core/MY_Controller.php` for such a constant and load that specific landing page. – Tpojka Aug 23 '17 at 16:05
How is that any different than your routing solution? – Brian Gottier Aug 23 '17 at 16:30
I meant actually of redirecting (or remapping) to specific `controller/method`. maybe better redirect since response status can be set. And answer here is just to show usability of routes not seen as best solution. I would go with your one probably. – Tpojka Aug 23 '17 at 16:33

Redirect an entire site in CodeIgniter does not work

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