index.php

@christaliise

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ivantcholakov - I need to study the links you provided.

CodeIgniter's index.php is crucial, because all server requests are 'captured' by it, and it's the starting point for all controllers.
On the other hand, XAMPP's index.php is also very important.
What you need to do is create a folder inside the htdocs folder. Give the folder a name that corresponds with your project.
Put all CodeIgniter files and folders in your project's folder.

Let's say your project is called "myproject", then you call your project's home page with this url:
localhost/myproject

Hi Wouter60, I've gone into the XAMPP index.php file and found it is not too complex and appears to be defining the server's URI. At the end it says "Something is wrong with the XAMPP installation". I have by now tested the installation and there is nothing wrong.

One of the themes of the website I'm building will be simplicity and I'd like to keep the URL as short as possible.

Is it possible to rename that file so that I can place CodeIgniter into htdocs of XAMPP?

If your XAMPP installation is correct you will not need to rename index.php

If you are running on a Windows OS then you need to set the environment variables to where php and the htdocs folders are, etc;

What did you Try? What did you Get? What did you Expect?

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If your XAMPP installation is correct you will not need to rename index.php

If you are running on a Windows OS then you need to set the environment variables to where php and the htdocs folders are, etc;

OK, rather than delete the XAMPP index.php, I've renamed it to iindex.php.

I'm running Win7 and I've set in application/config/config.php the following - $config['base_url'] = 'http://localhost/';

And this remains - $config['index_page'] = 'index.php';

I hope that is right.

This is how you set it up for the Environment Variables:

NOTE: XAMPP should be installed in c:\ root ( c:\xampp ) otherwise it does not work right.

1) Control Panel
2) System and Security
3) System
4) System Properties Dialog - click the Environment Variables buttom.
5) Environment Variables - bottom System variables - Path add yours - c:\xampp\php;C:\xampp\htdocs;

Make sure every path that you add ends with a semicolon.

What did you Try? What did you Get? What did you Expect?

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This is how you set it up for the Environment Variables:

NOTE: XAMPP should be installed in c:\ root ( c:\xampp ) otherwise it does not work right.

1) Control Panel
2) System and Security
3) System
4) System Properties Dialog - click the Environment Variables buttom.
5) Environment Variables - bottom System variables - Path add yours - c:\xampp\php;C:\xampp\htdocs;

Make sure every path that you add ends with a semicolon.

OK, I can follow most of what you said. I entered only one as follows;

Varable name: localhost
Varable value: C:\xampp\htdocs;

I'll reset $config['base_url'] = 'http://localhost/'; back to $config['base_url'] = '';

You should also add the one for php, you will need to also add the ones for Composer and GitHub when you start to use them.

What did you Try? What did you Get? What did you Expect?

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I am Also experiencing the same problem on Xampp, and  index.php not removed. please help me to find out a solution to this problem and I am finding it hard.

Another thing is that you need to check your Windows host file which you can find here,
you may need to un-hide files in the folders to see it.

C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\host

You can edit it using notepad etc;

Make sure that this line is in it without it beginning with a # sign

# localhost name resolution is handled within DNS itself.
# 127.0.0.1 localhost
# ::1 localhost

one or the other remove the # sign on the one you want to use.

What did you Try? What did you Get? What did you Expect?

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