.htaccess RewriteRule for remapping folder in CodeIgniter doesn't work

Question

I want users to see what's in /index.php?events/ when they type /prefiltered/. So, I don't want their browsers to display /index.php?events/. I think it's called remapping.

I'm using CodeIgniter, working in local and yes, I've activated mod_rewrite in my apache server.

I'm trying this with no positive results:

# CodeIngniter Configuration
RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php|images|robots\.txt)
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php?/$1 [L]

# What I want to get to work
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^prefiltered/? /index.php?events/ [NC,L]

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

It is called Routing. You need to do it in /application/routes.php file. Htaccess file should be:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

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

And in routes.php add following line:

$route['events'] = "prefiltered";

Hope it helps.