CodeIgniter incorrect system path on private server

Question

codeigniter project when uploaded to server gives me the following error.

Your system folder path does not appear to be set correctly. Please open the following file and correct this: index.php

it is working well locally & on 000webhost.com hosting.

When uploaded to private server of parallels it gives the above error.

My index.php is as follows.

<?php
define('ENVIRONMENT', 'development');

if (defined('ENVIRONMENT'))
{
switch (ENVIRONMENT)
{
    case 'development':
        error_reporting(E_ALL);
    break;

    case 'testing':
    case 'production':
        error_reporting(0);
    break;

    default:
        exit('The application environment is not set correctly.');
}
 }
$system_path = 'system';
$application_folder = 'application';


if (defined('STDIN'))
{
    chdir(dirname(__FILE__));
}

if (realpath($system_path) !== FALSE)
{
    $system_path = realpath($system_path).'/';
}

$system_path = rtrim($system_path, '/').'/';

if ( ! is_dir($system_path))
{
    exit("Your system folder path does not appear to be set correctly. Please open the following file and correct this: ".pathinfo(__FILE__, PATHINFO_BASENAME));
}

define('SELF', pathinfo(__FILE__, PATHINFO_BASENAME));
define('EXT', '.php');

// Path to the system folder
define('BASEPATH', str_replace("\\", "/", $system_path));

// Path to the front controller (this file)
define('FCPATH', str_replace(SELF, '', __FILE__));

// Name of the "system folder"
define('SYSDIR', trim(strrchr(trim(BASEPATH, '/'), '/'), '/'));


// The path to the "application" folder
if (is_dir($application_folder))
{
    define('APPPATH', $application_folder.'/');
}
else
{
    if ( ! is_dir(BASEPATH.$application_folder.'/'))
    {
        exit("Your application folder path does not appear to be set correctly. Please open the following file and correct this: ".SELF);
    }

    define('APPPATH', BASEPATH.$application_folder.'/');
}
 require_once BASEPATH.'core/CodeIgniter.php';

Cho

And what is your file/folder structure? – Anishaaniso

can u please provide the .htaccess you used. – Zampino

Answer 1

try this .htaccess on root folder

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteBase /

    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^system.*
    RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php?/$1 [L]

    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^application.*
    RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php?/$1 [L]

    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?/$1 [L]
</IfModule>
<IfModule !mod_rewrite.c>
    ErrorDocument 404 /index.php
</IfModule>

assumming that index.php is your index page.

and change in config.php

$config['index_page'] = '';

Zampino

Answer 2

In my case, I didn't go to mess with .htaccess, actually before going to do that, as it's suggested in the above post, I tried its later part, which is changing the

$config['index_page'] = 'index.php';

To the following

$config['index_page'] = '';

And it simply worked for me!

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Edit to add some more information ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

My CodeIgniter Directory structure:

htdocs /
       |_ CI /
             |_ OnlineStoreApp /
                               |_ online_store_ci  // This is the CodeIgniter folder
                               |_ public_html /
                                              |_ css
                                              |_ js
                                              |_ fonts
                                              |_ .htaccess // see bellow for more details
                                              |_ index.php // see bellow for more details

And my .htaccess file contains the following:

DirectoryIndex index.php
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php|images|css|js|robots\.txt|favicon\.ico)
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ ./index.php?/$1 [L,QSA]

My index.php file is the same one provided by CodeIgniter root folder, but I have to change two lines in it as I place it inside the public_html directory instead of it's original place:

Note: look for the following two lines within the index.php,
- $system_path
- $application_folder
They have been edited, to point the locations, where system directory and application directory reside in.

<?php

/*
 *---------------------------------------------------------------
 * APPLICATION ENVIRONMENT
 *---------------------------------------------------------------
 *
 * You can load different configurations depending on your
 * current environment. Setting the environment also influences
 * things like logging and error reporting.
 *
 * This can be set to anything, but default usage is:
 *
 *     development
 *     testing
 *     production
 *
 * NOTE: If you change these, also change the error_reporting() code below
 *
 */
    define('ENVIRONMENT', 'development');
/*
 *---------------------------------------------------------------
 * ERROR REPORTING
 *---------------------------------------------------------------
 *
 * Different environments will require different levels of error reporting.
 * By default development will show errors but testing and live will hide them.
 */

if (defined('ENVIRONMENT'))
{
    switch (ENVIRONMENT)
    {
        case 'development':
            error_reporting(E_ALL);
        break;

        case 'testing':
        case 'production':
            error_reporting(0);
        break;

        default:
            exit('The application environment is not set correctly.');
    }
}

/*
 *---------------------------------------------------------------
 * SYSTEM FOLDER NAME
 *---------------------------------------------------------------
 *
 * This variable must contain the name of your "system" folder.
 * Include the path if the folder is not in the same  directory
 * as this file.
 *
 */
    $system_path = '../online_store_ci/system';

/*
 *---------------------------------------------------------------
 * APPLICATION FOLDER NAME
 *---------------------------------------------------------------
 *
 * If you want this front controller to use a different "application"
 * folder then the default one you can set its name here. The folder
 * can also be renamed or relocated anywhere on your server.  If
 * you do, use a full server path. For more info please see the user guide:
 * http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/general/managing_apps.html
 *
 * NO TRAILING SLASH!
 *
 */
    $application_folder = '../online_store_ci/application';

/*
 * --------------------------------------------------------------------
 * DEFAULT CONTROLLER
 * --------------------------------------------------------------------
 *
 * Normally you will set your default controller in the routes.php file.
 * You can, however, force a custom routing by hard-coding a
 * specific controller class/function here.  For most applications, you
 * WILL NOT set your routing here, but it's an option for those
 * special instances where you might want to override the standard
 * routing in a specific front controller that shares a common CI installation.
 *
 * IMPORTANT:  If you set the routing here, NO OTHER controller will be
 * callable. In essence, this preference limits your application to ONE
 * specific controller.  Leave the function name blank if you need
 * to call functions dynamically via the URI.
 *
 * Un-comment the $routing array below to use this feature
 *
 */
    // The directory name, relative to the "controllers" folder.  Leave blank
    // if your controller is not in a sub-folder within the "controllers" folder
    // $routing['directory'] = '';

    // The controller class file name.  Example:  Mycontroller
    // $routing['controller'] = '';

    // The controller function you wish to be called.
    // $routing['function'] = '';


/*
 * -------------------------------------------------------------------
 *  CUSTOM CONFIG VALUES
 * -------------------------------------------------------------------
 *
 * The $assign_to_config array below will be passed dynamically to the
 * config class when initialized. This allows you to set custom config
 * items or override any default config values found in the config.php file.
 * This can be handy as it permits you to share one application between
 * multiple front controller files, with each file containing different
 * config values.
 *
 * Un-comment the $assign_to_config array below to use this feature
 *
 */
    // $assign_to_config['name_of_config_item'] = 'value of config item';



// --------------------------------------------------------------------
// END OF USER CONFIGURABLE SETTINGS.  DO NOT EDIT BELOW THIS LINE
// --------------------------------------------------------------------

/*
 * ---------------------------------------------------------------
 *  Resolve the system path for increased reliability
 * ---------------------------------------------------------------
 */

    // Set the current directory correctly for CLI requests
    if (defined('STDIN'))
    {
        chdir(dirname(__FILE__));
    }

    if (realpath($system_path) !== FALSE)
    {
        $system_path = realpath($system_path).'/';
    }

    // ensure there's a trailing slash
    $system_path = rtrim($system_path, '/').'/';

    // Is the system path correct?
    if ( ! is_dir($system_path))
    {
        exit("Your system folder path does not appear to be set correctly. Please open the following file and correct this: ".pathinfo(__FILE__, PATHINFO_BASENAME));
    }

/*
 * -------------------------------------------------------------------
 *  Now that we know the path, set the main path constants
 * -------------------------------------------------------------------
 */
    // The name of THIS file
    define('SELF', pathinfo(__FILE__, PATHINFO_BASENAME));

    // The PHP file extension
    // this global constant is deprecated.
    define('EXT', '.php');

    // Path to the system folder
    define('BASEPATH', str_replace("\\", "/", $system_path));

    // Path to the front controller (this file)
    define('FCPATH', str_replace(SELF, '', __FILE__));

    // Name of the "system folder"
    define('SYSDIR', trim(strrchr(trim(BASEPATH, '/'), '/'), '/'));


    // The path to the "application" folder
    if (is_dir($application_folder))
    {
        define('APPPATH', $application_folder.'/');
    }
    else
    {
        if ( ! is_dir(BASEPATH.$application_folder.'/'))
        {
            exit("Your application folder path does not appear to be set correctly. Please open the following file and correct this: ".SELF);
        }

        define('APPPATH', BASEPATH.$application_folder.'/');
    }

/*
 * --------------------------------------------------------------------
 * LOAD THE BOOTSTRAP FILE
 * --------------------------------------------------------------------
 *
 * And away we go...
 *
 */
require_once BASEPATH.'core/CodeIgniter.php';

/* End of file index.php */
/* Location: ./index.php */

Hope this might help somebody out there!

CodeIgniter Rocks!

Williwaw

Answer 3

If you upload your project, follow these steps:

1. Make sure you have uploaded application, system, index.php, .htaccess

2. Modify your config/database.php with your hosted database.

3. Make sure you check your URL spellings, because Linux hosting is case-sensitive.

4. Make sure all resources are uploaded to server (CSS, JS, images, etc ...)

Zarger

where can i find config/database.php – Hornstein

Answer 4

I have same issue then i create controller inside that i have created index method then call cron file with below command it is working for me.

wget domain_name/google_script -O /dev/null

google_script = "My controller class name"

this solution work for me.

Manhattan

Answer 5

I have changed my define('ENVIRONMENT', 'development'); to

if ($_SERVER['SERVER_ADDR'] == '192.168.0.1' || $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] == 'localhost')
{
    define('ENVIRONMENT', 'development');
}
else
{
    define('ENVIRONMENT', 'production');
}

It worked for me.

Reference from here

Astridastride