help

i'm using CI in two ways : Desktop

with codeigniter in a directory called "CI" on Desktop ; if your on linux its a simple matter of
$ cd Desktop
$ cd CI
$ php spark server
//that starts up dev server and tells you addresss to go to eg:

bash-5.0$ cd Desktop/CI
bash-5.0$ php spark serve


CodeIgniter CLI Tool - Version 4.0.0-rc.3 - Server-Time: 2020-02-24 04:28:08am

CodeIgniter development server started on http://localhost:8080
Press Control-C to stop.
[Mon Feb 24 10:28:08 2020] PHP 7.4.1 Development Server (http://localhost:8080) started

so simply put http://localhost:8080 in the address bar (top) of a web browser


One simple advantage of running from Desktop if your on Linux is that xampp is usually installed
at something like /opt on linux and since it it not located in /home/user space everything comes under root permissions which is a total pain when running your linux OS as a normal user and try to edit anything.




The other way i'm using it is not xampp; but simply using the inbuilt apache server