Actually I did put you in a wrong impression by this
I modified the URI.php library file to remove the suffix and then it started working.
when I accessed the last segment using
$this->uri->segment(no)
it said for e.g login_html instead of login.
So, I was actually trying to remove the suffix from the last segment value (not from the URL) .
Thus allowing the url suffix to work and removing the suffix from the last segment value.
For admin, I think what you had detailed is the only Hope for now.
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