CodeIgniter 404 Page Not Found, but why?

Question

I am using CodeIgniter for two applications (a public and an admin app). The important elements of the document structure are:

/admin
/admin/.htaccess
/admin/index.html
/application
/application/admin
/application/public
/system
.htaccess
index.php

The /admin/.htaccess file looks like this:

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

The /admin/index.php has the following changes:

$system_folder = "../system";
$application_folder = "../application/admin"; (this line exists of course twice)

And the /application/admin/config/routes.php contains the following:

$route['default_controller'] = "welcome";
$route['admin'] = 'welcome';

Welcome is my default controller.

When I call up the Domain/admin I get a 404 Page Not Found error. When I call up the Domain/admin/welcome everything works fine. In the debug logs I get the following error message:

DEBUG - 2010-09-20 16:27:34 --> Config Class Initialized
DEBUG - 2010-09-20 16:27:34 --> Hooks Class Initialized
DEBUG - 2010-09-20 16:27:34 --> URI Class Initialized
ERROR - 2010-09-20 16:27:34 --> 404 Page Not Found --> admin

Weirdly enough this setup works perfectly on my local MAMP installation (with the localdomain/admin/), but when I publish and test it on the "live" server, I just get 404 errors.

Any ideas? What am I doing wrong? Thanks C.

Answer 1

You could try one of two things or a combination of both.

1. Be sure that your controller's name starts with a capital letter. eg "Mycontroller.php"
2. If you have not made any changes to your route, for some strange reason, you might have to include capital letters in your url. e.g if your controller is 'Mycontroller.php' with a function named 'testfunc' inside it, then your url will look like this: "http://www.yourdomain/index.php/Mycontroller/testfunc". Note the capital letter. (I'm assuming you haven't added the htaccess file to remove the 'index.php' part. If you have, just remove it from the url.)

I hope this helps someone

Answer 2

In my case I was using it on localhost and forgot to change RewriteBase in .htaccess.

Answer 3

1. Change your controller name first letter to uppercase.
2. Change your url same as your controller name.

e.g:

Your controller name is YourController

Your url must be:

http://example.com/index.php/YourController/method

Not be:

http://example.com/index.php/yourcontroller/method

Answer 4

I had the same issue after migrating to a new environment and it was simply that the server didn't run mod_rewrite

a quick sudo a2enmod rewrite then sudo systemctl restart apache2

and problem solved...

Thanks @fanis who pointed that out in his comment on the question.

Answer 5

Your folder/file structure seems a little odd to me. I can't quite figure out how you've got this laid out.

Hello I am using CodeIgniter for two applications (a public and an admin app).

This sounds to me like you've got two separate CI installations. If this is the case, I'd recommend against it. Why not just handle all admin stuff in an admin controller? If you do want two separate CI installations, make sure they are definitely distinct entities and that the two aren't conflicting with one another. This line:

$system_folder = "../system";
$application_folder = "../application/admin"; (this line exists of course twice)

And the place you said this exists (/admin/index.php...or did you mean /admin/application/config?) has me scratching my head. You have admin/application/admin and a system folder at the top level?

Answer 6

we have to give the controller name in lower cases in server side

$this->class = strtolower(__CLASS__);