As stated in my previous question, I some how managed to cop up with this one, by using the URL like myproject-local.com/admin/index
But now I have added another controller, say category in admin directory and when I go to myproject-local.com/admin/category, it gives me 404
Routes.php
$route['default_controller'] = "welcome";
$route['admin/(:any)'] = "admin/admin/$1";
$route['404_override'] = '';
.htaccess
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?/$1 [L]
</IfModule>
<IfModule !mod_rewrite.c>
ErrorDocument 404 /index.php
</IfModule>
and I have set $config['index'] = ''; in my config.php
Try this way
$route['default_controller'] = "welcome";
$route['admin/category/(:any)'] = "admin/category/$1";
$route['admin/(:any)'] = "admin/admin/$1";
$route['404_override'] = '';
Even though that using routes seems to be the right n' easy way to go I found it so annoying to add a route for each new controller.
As a more stable solution to this you can bring the feature of multi-level controller subfolders to CodeIgniter by extending the locate() method of core Router class. Here is my extended HMVC router class. If you're not using HMVC, you might need to write your own fork with a little modification. The code is well commented, read through and let me know if you have any questions.
<?php (defined('BASEPATH')) OR exit('No direct script access allowed');
// Load HMVC Router
require APPPATH . 'third_party/MX/Router.php';
// ------------------------------------------------------------------------
/**
* Better HMVC Router for CodeIgniter.
*
* @package CodeIgniter
* @author Sepehr Lajevardi <me@sepehr.ws>
* @copyright Copyright (c) 2011 Sepehr Lajevardi.
* @license http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/license.html
* @link https://github.com/sepehr/ci-mx-router
* @version Version 1.0
* @filesource
*/
// ------------------------------------------------------------------------
/**
* HMVC Router extension to support multilevel controller subfolders.
*
* @package CodeIgniter
* @subpackage Libraries
* @category Libraries
* @author Sepehr Lajevardi <me@sepehr.ws>
* @link https://github.com/sepehr/ci-mx-router
*/
class MY_Router extends MX_Router {
/**
* Routes URI segments to the proper module/app controller.
*
* It's a override of MX_Router's locate() method
* to support multilevel controller subfolders.
*
* @param array $segments URI segments
* @return array
*/
public function locate($segments)
{
$this->module = $this->directory = '';
$ext = $this->config->item('controller_suffix') . EXT;
// Use module route if available
if (isset($segments[0]) AND $routes = Modules::parse_routes($segments[0], implode('/', $segments)))
{
$segments = $routes;
}
// Get the segments array elements
list($module, $directory, $controller) = array_pad($segments, 3, NULL);
// ------------------------------------------------------------------------
// 1. Check modules (recursive)
// ------------------------------------------------------------------------
foreach (Modules::$locations as $location => $offset)
{
// Module controllers/ exists?
if (is_dir($source = $location . $module . '/controllers/'))
{
$this->module = $module;
$this->directory = $offset . $module . '/controllers/';
// Temporary helper variables
$base_directory = $this->directory;
$segments_copy = array_slice($segments, 1);
do {
// Update directory, if not in the first round
if (isset($segments_copy[0]) AND $directory !== $segments_copy[0])
{
$this->directory = $base_directory . $directory . '/';
$directory .= '/' . $segments_copy[0];
}
// Check if controller file exists
if ($directory AND is_file($source . $directory . $ext))
{
return $segments_copy;
}
// Move forward through the segments
$segments_copy = array_slice($segments_copy, 1);
}
while ( ! empty($segments_copy) AND $directory AND is_dir($source . $directory . '/'));
// Check for default module-named controller
if (is_file($source . $module . $ext))
{
$this->directory = $base_directory;
return $segments;
}
}
} // foreach
// ------------------------------------------------------------------------
// 2. Check app controllers in APPPATH/controllers/
// ------------------------------------------------------------------------
if (is_file(APPPATH . 'controllers/' . $module . $ext))
{
return $segments;
}
// Application sub-directory controller exists?
if ($directory AND is_file(APPPATH . 'controllers/' . $module . '/' . $directory . $ext))
{
$this->directory = $module . '/';
return array_slice($segments, 1);
}
// ------------------------------------------------------------------------
// 4. Check multilevel sub-directories in APPPATH/controllers/
// ------------------------------------------------------------------------
if ($directory)
{
$dir = '';
do {
// Go forward in segments to check for directories
empty($dir) OR $dir .= '/';
$dir .= $segments[0];
// Update segments array
$segments = array_slice($segments, 1);
}
while (count($segments) > 0 AND is_dir(APPPATH . 'controllers/' . $dir . '/' . $segments[0]));
// Set the directory and remove it from the segments array
$this->directory = str_replace('.', '', $dir) . '/';
// If no controller found, use 'default_controller' as defined in 'config/routes.php'
if (count($segments) > 0
AND ! file_exists(APPPATH . 'controllers/' . $this->fetch_directory() . $segments[0] . EXT))
{
array_unshift($segments, $this->default_controller);
}
else if (empty($segments) AND is_dir(APPPATH . 'controllers/' . $this->directory))
{
$segments = array($this->default_controller);
}
if (count($segments) > 0)
{
// Does the requested controller exist in the sub-folder?
if ( ! file_exists(APPPATH . 'controllers/' . $this->fetch_directory() . $segments[0] . EXT))
{
$this->directory = '';
}
}
if ($this->directory . $segments[0] != $module . '/' . $this->default_controller
AND count($segments) > 0
AND file_exists(APPPATH . 'controllers/' . $this->fetch_directory() . $segments[0] . EXT ) )
{
return $segments;
}
}
// ------------------------------------------------------------------------
// 5. Check application sub-directory default controller
// ------------------------------------------------------------------------
if (is_file(APPPATH . 'controllers/' . $module . '/' . $this->default_controller . $ext))
{
$this->directory = $module . '/';
return array($this->default_controller);
}
}
// ------------------------------------------------------------------------
}
// End of MY_Router class
/* End of file MY_Router.php */
/* Location: ./application/core/MY_Router.php */
Hope it helps.
If find if I use hmvc with routes it all works fine with HMVC. Because this is way I use it with hmvc routes if download latest version you must include the function in route like shown below. No need to add other script for hmvc in the route only use what they have.
$route['default_controller'] = "folder/file/index"; //Works
$route['404_override'] = '';
$route['some_controller_name_a'] = "folder/file/index"; //Works
$route['some_controller_name_b'] = "folder/file/yourfunction"; //Works
//My Way
$route['default_controller'] = "install/common/step_1/index";
$route['404_override'] = '';
// If default controller does not work with sub folder add it like so then should work.
$route['step_1'] = "install/common/step_1/index";
$route['step_2'] = "install/common/step_2/index";
$route['step_3'] = "install/common/step_3/index";
$route['step_4'] = "install/common/step_4/index";
And if use redirect can make it like redirect('some_controller_name_a'); Works
Use
Options +FollowSymLinks
Options -Indexes
DirectoryIndex index.php
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php|images|robots\.txt)
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/$1 [L,QSA]
Also remove the index.php from config file in application
Also on the view file load controller
<?php echo Modules::run('install/common/header/index');?>
