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why is www.mydomain.com/index.php/reports/report1 mapped to index.php ? - El Forum - 02-16-2013
[eluser]Unknown[/eluser]
Hi,
the title says it all. I must have spend 3 hours to find and answer to this question on the internet - I surrender and signed up on this forum to ask
I started working on a project which uses apache2 (with the virtual hosts mod - but i think that doesn't matter) and a standard codeigniter setup. In the DocumentRoot directory is the codeigniter index.php file.
Why is a request like "www.mydomain.com/index.php/reports/report1" not interpreted by apache as try to find in DocumentRoot a directory called "index.php" and in there a directory "reports" and in there a file called "report1".
Everything works fine by the way: the index.php file is called and does its magic.
But out of pure curiosity I would like to know ... why is that ?
Thanks,
Dieter
why is www.mydomain.com/index.php/reports/report1 mapped to index.php ? - El Forum - 02-16-2013
[eluser]Harold Villacorte[/eluser]
You probably have index.php defined as DirectoryIndex in either httpd.conf or .htaccess.
why is www.mydomain.com/index.php/reports/report1 mapped to index.php ? - El Forum - 02-16-2013
[eluser]Unknown[/eluser]
yes there is an entry in httpd.conf (and only there):
<IfModule dir_module>
DirectoryIndex index.php index.html
</IfModule>
However the docu says :"The DirectoryIndex directive sets the list of resources to look for, when the client requests an index of the directory by specifying a / at the end of the directory name." Hmm .. if I request www.mydomain.com/index.php/reports/report1 should I not request the directory "index.php/reports/report1/" which doesn't exist and that should return a "file not found error" ?
why is www.mydomain.com/index.php/reports/report1 mapped to index.php ? - El Forum - 02-16-2013
[eluser]Harold Villacorte[/eluser]
CI has a couple of nifty classes called uri and router. Together they grab the uri from the $_SERVER superglobal and serve up code based on the uri segments like this - index.php/controller/method/parameter/.