How to rewrite the index.php of Codeigniter on Windows Azure

You can add rewrite rules in your web.config file. Add the following to the system.webServer section:

<rewrite>  <rules>    <rule name="Rule" stopProcessing="true">      <match url="^(.*)$" ignoreCase="false" />      <conditions>        <add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsFile" ignoreCase="false" negate="true" />        <add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsDirectory" ignoreCase="false" negate="true" />        <add input="{URL}" pattern="^/favicon.ico$" ignoreCase="false" negate="true" />      </conditions>      <action type="Rewrite" url="index.php/{R:1}" appendQueryString="true" />    </rule>  </rules></rewrite> 

Create a file name web.config in wwwroot

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><configuration>    <system.webServer>        <rewrite>            <rules>                <rule name="Imported Rule 1" stopProcessing="true">                    <match url="^(.*)$" ignoreCase="false" />                        <conditions logicalGrouping="MatchAll">                            <add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsDirectory" negate="true" />                            <add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsFile" negate="true" />                        </conditions>                        <action type="Rewrite" url="index.php?url={R:1}" appendQueryString="true" />                </rule>            </rules>        </rewrite>     </system.webServer></configuration>

You can also implement other rewrite rules like

<rule name="a rule"><match url="^xxx/(.*)/(.*)-(.*)\.xxx" /><conditions logicalGrouping="MatchAll" trackAllCaptures="false" /><action type="Rewrite" url="controller/method/{R:3}" /></rule>

with one condition, is to change $config['url_protocal']='PATH_INFO'; in config/config.php this will tell URL rewrite module to use re-writed URI instead of original URL, otherwise you will have 404 page not found problem.