codeigniter routes not working on ubuntu server

Question

I'm working on a ubuntu server that installed by me. I have made a php web application using codeigniter frame work. most of the things working very well. but the thing is I can't use ulr like this

<a href="<?php echo base_url().'new_user'; ?>" >New User</a>

it is redirect me to an error page saying

The requested URL /sdbl/new_user was not found on this server.

my route.php file is looking something like this.

$route['new_user'] = "new_user/controller_new_user";

but when i type full url in the href="" like

<a href="index.php/new_user/controller_new_user" >New User</a>

This is working well.

i tried doing thousands things like editnig htacces file and so many. nothing works for me.

Answer 1

According to the CodeIgniter documentation, you should use an .htaccess file to remove the "index.php" from the URL, here's an example file :

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php|images|robots\.txt)
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php/$1 [L]