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Oh, you shouldn’t be using base_url in an include or library load because base_url includes http://, etc.

Instead use a relative path, such as require_once(”../views/glowna_v.php”), or $this->load->view(‘glowna_v’).

thanks, on irc channel i have asked the same question and i have ended with this:

$BasePath = str_repeat("../", substr_count(dirname($_SERVER["SCRIPT_NAME"]), "/"));
$config['base_url'] = $BasePath . '/wl2/';

and it is working now, thanks

I use this, because all the logic you guys are doing is already done by the browser.

$config['base_url'] = '/';

$config['base_url'] = '/';

Now that does not work everywhere. It works only if the site is at the root level. When online, that works but on localhost the site rarely is in the root level(I have tons of aliases set up in my localhost).

$config['base_url'] = '/sub-directory/';

What is wrong with you people?

Haha.. Not to mention there are more elegant ways to work locally than subdir-ing the hell out of localhost. VirtualHost, anyone?

I was just pointing out that ‘/’ does not work for every situation. That subdirectory does not work for the same reason that I gave you before, only vice-versa 😊

Colin, tell me more about using vhost on localhost. Do you mean that I create hosts like “myproject”, “myproject2” etc. on the local machine and add those to vhosts (so the address would be http://myproject/)?

I know how to setup vhosts but havent done that on localhost before.

Automatic base_url on the wiki page works just fine both localhost and the actual domain so I havent bothered to use anything else but aliases.

cahva, I wouldn’t see the practicality of developing a site to live on the root locally then in a sub folder on the remote server.

Here’s a typical vhost entry I do:

<VirtualHost *:80>
    DocumentRoot C:/local/www/williamsconcepts.com
    ServerName local.williamsconcepts.com
    ServerAlias *.local.williamsconcepts.com
    
    <Directory "C:/local/www/williamsconcepts.com">
    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes ExecCGI
    AllowOverride All
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
    </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

Then I just add an entry to my hosts file (Windows)

127.0.0.1      local.williamsconcepts.com

Ok, thanks colin. I already turned my aliases to vhosts and all is working well 😊 With this config base_url can be just ‘/’ as you said.

Wiki Page

http://codeigniter.com/wiki/Automatic_configbase_url/

thanks man , i have added this feature to my vunsy kernel, now it can know the base URL automatically

i am stil having a problem when i click on submit i am redirected to http://localhost/CodeIgniter/form
which is my controller

Thanks

can the next lines work in a none code igniter framework
$root = “http://”.$_SERVER[‘HTTP_HOST’];
$root .= str_replace(basename($_SERVER[‘SCRIPT_NAME’]),”“,$_SERVER[‘SCRIPT_NAME’]);

thanks

Actually, CodeIgniter is already set up to handle different configurations between development, testing, and production.

In your config folder (default application/config) add a folder called ‘development’. Any configuration files you add to this folder will be loaded when in the development environment rather than the files in the config folder.

For your issue (and what I always do), copy config.php and database.php into application/config/development and change these settings to your development server settings. The same can be done for testing by adding a testing folder.

Now changing between environments is as simple as changing the current environment in your index.php file and without adding any extra lines of code.