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Felix Feliciant
Felix Feliciant

Reputation: 195

unable to browse to codeigniter custom controller

I am having problems with codeigniter 3, I am using netbeans as my IDE and wampserver. I was able to browser successfully to 'localhost/ci_test/' (ci_test is the name of the project/website') and it served me the default welcome.php controller, however I tried a 2nd controller inside the CI controller folder called 'Test.php', with the following content:

<?php 
   class Test extends CI_Controller {  

      public function index() { 
         echo "This is default function."; 
      } 

      public function hello() { 
         echo "This is hello function."; 
      } 
   } 
?>

then when i tried to browse to that controller: with the following url: http://localhost/ci_test/index.php/test it served me my welcome.php (which is not what I wanted),

then I tried this url: http://localhost/ci_test/test.php

and I got a response:

Not Found

The requested URL /ci_test/test.php was not found on this server.

Apache/2.4.9 (Win64) PHP/5.5.12 Server at localhost Port 80

I don't understand what am I missing here...

Note: I did not change the .htacess files that were provided by codeigniter, and left them as is(maybe the problem there).

I only changed the following things in CI:

application/config/config.php:

$config['base_url'] = 'http://localhost/ci_test/';
$config['index_page'] = ''
$config['uri_protocol'] = 'PATH_INFO';

I hope someone can help here :)

EDIT: I have read the first 4 answer's and it still doesn't work

EDIT2: so after I decided to give up, I noticed that my apache server did not have ' mod_rewrite' ON, so i turned it on tried again the same project and it still did not work, Then I decided to create a new project from scratch and with CI, I added new controller and everything works well now. this is lol... Thank you very much for all those who tried to help me :)

Upvotes: 0

Views: 538

Answers (4)

TimBrownlaw
TimBrownlaw

Reputation: 5507

This is a rushed quick answer... If you are using WAMPServer, check that it hasn't set MultiViews in either your httpd file or the vhosts file if you are using that.

Upvotes: 0

Blinkydamo
Blinkydamo

Reputation: 1584

welcome controller

<?php
class Welcome extends MY_Controller 
{
    public function index()
    {
       $this->load->view('welcome');
    }
}

welcome view

<a href="<?php echo base_url('test'); ?>">Test Page</a>

test controller

<?php
class Test extends MY_Controller 
{
    public function index()
    {
       $this->load->view('test');
    }
}

test view

<h1>Test Page</h1>

The views must be named test.php and welcome.php and placed into the views folder.

Let us know how you get on.

Have a look at the routes.php file in the config folder

Change $route['default_controller'] = 'welcome';

to

$route['default_controller'] = 'test';

See if that works

If you get an error saying it can't find the page look at the address bar if it is like this

http://localhost/ci_test/test

try changing it to this

http://localhost/index.php/ci_test/test

Upvotes: 1

anuraj
anuraj

Reputation: 157

You need to access that Test Controller directly then you need to add .htaccess file in the project root.. here is the .htaccess file for avoiding index.php in codeigniter

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
 RewriteEngine On
 RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
 RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
 RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/$1 [L]
</IfModule>

if you add this .htaccess file in the root your problem will resolved..

also don't need to add extention in your url (http://localhost/ci_test/test.php) , this is wrong

http://localhost/ci_test/test

this is enough to load your controller

Upvotes: 1

TimBrownlaw
TimBrownlaw

Reputation: 5507

Out of the box, codeigniter uses the url . com/controller/method.

You have created a Test controller called Test.php. To access it you would use...

http://localhost/ci_test/test

You Do Not put a .php on the end.

Upvotes: 0

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