codeigniter Getting started with codeigniter Installation and Setup

Example

Windows Environment

1. Install XAMPP or WAMP
2. Download and Unzip the package from Codeigniter.com
3. Extract all the document in the server space (htdocs or www directory)

Mac Environment

1. Install MAMP
2. Download and Unzip the package from Codeigniter.com
3. Extract all the document in the server space (htdocs)

Linux Environment

1. Download and Unzip the package from Codeigniter.com
2. Place the extracted folder in /var/www (in WAMP) or xampp/htdocs (XAMPP)

GitHub

git clone https://github.com/bcit-ci/CodeIgniter.git

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If you follow the system correctly, you will get the below screen.

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Base URL

1. Go to application/config/config.php
2. Define base URL as $config['base_url'] = 'http://localhost/path/to/folder';

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Remove index.php from URL

Apache Configuration

1. go to root

2. create htaccess file

3. Add below code inside it

   RewriteEngine on
   RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php|assets|image|resources|robots\.txt)
   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
   RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/$1 [L,QSA]
   

Note: .htaccess code vary depending on hosting server. In some hosting server (e.g.: Godaddy) need to use an extra ? in the last line of above code. The following line will be replaced with last line in applicable case:

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?/$1 [L,QSA]

Nginx Configuration

1. Open nginx config file (by default: /etc/nginx/sites-available/default)

2. Add below code inside it

   server {
      server_name domain.tld;
   
      root /path-to-codeigniter-folder; //you codeigniter path
      index index.html index.php;
   
      # set expiration of assets to MAX for caching
      location ~* \.(ico|css|js|gif|jpe?g|png)(\?[0-9]+)?$ {
           expires max;
           log_not_found off;
      }
   
      location / {
           # Check if a file or directory index file exists, else route it to index.php.
           try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php;
      }
   
      location ~* \.php$ {
           fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
           include fastcgi.conf;
      }
   }
   

Database Configuration

1. Go to application/config/database.php
2. Set the following configuration variables.
   • Host
   • Username
   • Password
   • Database Name
   • Port

Set Default Controller

1. Go to application/config/routes.php
2. set the following configuration variable value with your controller name.
   • default_controller

AutoLoad Library And Helper

1. Go to application/config/autoload.php

2. set Auto load value like $autoload['libraries'] = array('database', 'session');
3. set Helper value like $autoload['helper'] = array('url', 'file', 'form', 'html', 'text');