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Codeigniter: Remove controller from URL and disable access through the original path – SEO

Original URL

mydomain.com/main/portfolio

Now I need to remove the controller name from the URL with the below Route which i have done successfully:

//Controller Name: main
$route['(:any)'] = "main/$1";

My new URL is good:

mydomain.com/portfolio

But the original URL is still accessible which I don’t want for SEO purposes:

mydomain.com/main/portfolio

How can I have my good URL run as normal and block the old URL.

Thanks.

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  1. 0

    You can create a not found page and redirect unwanted routes to that.
    For instance you can create error controller:

    class Error extends CI_Controller {     
    public function error_404() {
        // send 404 header
        $this->output->set_status_header('404');
        // load a custom not found page view template
        $this->load->view('error_404');
    }        
}

    Then in the routes.php you can catch those URLs which contains the “main/” like this:

    // this should be placed above the (:any) route
$route['main/(:any)'] = 'error/error_404';
$route['(:any)'] = "main/$1";
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  2. 0 
    RedirectMatch "^/main/(.*)" "http://www.example.com/$1"

    More examples available here.

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