Problem with setup

[eluser]jedd[/eluser]
Hi MaartenW,

You could file a bug about the instructions if you think they are confusing. I am but a humble cog in the .. etc etc

I will observe this, however, regarding the CI user guide. They maintain a brevity of wordage that I find enviable and unsettling. Very important, key, fundamental, non-tautological points are made almost in passing, without fanfare, repetition, deviation or hesitation. It is remarkably easy - I have done this a lot - to read through a page, skimming mostly, and completely missing the thing you are looking for simply because it's describe so succinctly, almost en passant.

For instance, wrt your 'the root' observation - they actually say 'your root', and to most people that is understood to be their web server's (doc)root. This makes sense since you're installing a web package, and they are describing where in your web server you would unpack the package to.

The direction to edit application/config/config.php does, you are right, not make it precisely clear that this is within the sub-directory of system - however after you unpack the CI code you are presented with two files and one sub-directory. No matter if you're in a GUI or a command line at this point, you're going to look into that sub-directory pretty quickly .. to find the pot of config.php at the end of the application directory rainbow.


I think more generally, and this applies to all software, if you get stuck at a certain point of an installation you really shouldn't just ignore it, or do something that rhymes with the words of that point, and keep going on in the hope that the system won't notice or care ... 'cos it probably will.