How to install codeigniter and view at a temporary URL.

As mentioned in a previous post that .htaccess file should have been temporarily renamed to test to see if Apache2 was rendering index.php. If rendered OK then proceed with further tests.

I believe .htaccess is mostly essential for "Pretty Urls". If there is no .htaccess file then CodeIgniter uses the following default method:

//app/config/App.php

Code:

/**
* --------------------------------------------------------------------------
* Index File
* --------------------------------------------------------------------------
*
* Typically this will be your index.php file, unless you've renamed it to
* something else. If you are using mod_rewrite to remove the page set this
* variable so that it is blank.
*
* @var string
*/
public $indexPage = ''; // 'index.php';