404 Not Found - sure it's simple but can't figure it out

[eluser]gypmaster[/eluser]
Hi,

CI Newb and trying to follow a book on developing CI applications. Going ok except I keep getting a 404 Not Found Error, specifically:

The requested URL /ci/welcome/cat/7 was not found on this server.

when trying to access a function called 'cat' in the welcome controller.
I have a link from the 'home' page to the /ci/welcome/cat/7 url .. the link looks fine and should work. I have a controllers called cat in the welcome controller - here's some of the code in the controller.

Code:

<?php

class Welcome extends Controller {

    function Welcome()
    {
        parent::Controller();    
    }
    
  function index()
      {    
        $data['title'] = "Welcome to Claudia's Kids";
        $data['navlist'] = $this->MCats->getCategoriesNav();
        $data['mainf'] = $this->MProducts->getMainFeature();
        $skip = $data['mainf']['id'];
        $data['sidef'] = $this->MProducts->getRandomProducts(3,$skip);
        $data['main'] = 'home';
        $this->load->vars($data);
        $this->load->view('template');
      }
      
  function cat($id)
    {
        $cat = $this->MCats->getCategory($id);
        if (!count($cat))
            {
                redirect('welcome/index','refresh');
            }
        if ($cat['parentid'] < 1)
            {
                //show other categories
                $data['listing'] = $this->MCats->getSubCategories($id);
                $data['level'] = 1;
            }
        else
            {
                //show products
                $data['listing'] = $this->MProducts->getProductsByCategory($id);
                $data['level'] = 2;
            }
        $data['title'] = "Claudia's Kids | ". $cat['name'];
        $data['navlist'] = $this->MCats->getCategoriesNav();
        $data['category'] = $cat;
        $data['main'] = 'category';
        $this->load->vars($data);
        $this->load->view('template');
    }

I have set the default controller to 'welcome'.

Here's my .htaccess:

Code:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php|images|captcha|css|js|robots\.txt)
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php/$1 [L]

anyone help with this?
TIA

[eluser]wabu[/eluser]
I'm wondering about the directory "ci"--could there be some confusion about where everything's located?

[eluser]gypmaster[/eluser]
Hi wabu,

Here's what I've got in my config.php file:

Code:

$config['base_url']    = "http://localhost/ci/";

[eluser]wabu[/eluser]
Does everything live in "ci"? How about taking the "ci" out of your link (since that's "home")?

[eluser]Chad Fulton[/eluser]
It's your .htaccess which is wrong, I think.

Your RewriteRule has /index.php/$1, which makes it look in your base directory (http://localhost/) for the index.php file, which I suppose is not there. Remove the first / to make it look in the current directory rather than the document root.

You can do:

Code:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php|images|captcha|css|js|robots\.txt)
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/$1 [L]

[eluser]gypmaster[/eluser]
Everything 'lives' under "ci"

For example:

ci\system\application\controllers is the full path to the controllers folder

I changed the .htaccess but it made no difference.

Here's how the link is built in the code:

Code:

echo anchor("welcome/cat/$id",$name);

any other ideas?
thanks

[eluser]wabu[/eluser]
Does the index function in your welcome controller work? Is it just cat that isn't working? [Cats have an unfortunate reputation as being lazy.]

Does .htaccess live in "ci" too, or your site root?

[eluser]gypmaster[/eluser]
Hi,

lol,

cats are very lazy ... except when depositing in my garden

seriously though, the index function does work just fine.

.htaccess lives in "ci", should it be somewhere else?

Cheers.

[eluser]wabu[/eluser]
Okay, another try:

If you paste the following directly into your browser address bar, does it work?

http://localhost/ci/welcome/index/

If so, does pasting this one directly into your browser work?

http://localhost/ci/welcome/cat/5

You might have tried this already--I'm just trying to cover all the bases here.

[Also you might simplify cat() to just "echo $id;" or something until it works.]

[eluser]gypmaster[/eluser]
[quote author="wabu" date="1249516802"]Okay, another try:

If you paste the following directly into your browser address bar, does it work?

http://localhost/ci/welcome/index/

If so, does pasting this one directly into your browser work?

http://localhost/ci/welcome/cat/5

You might have tried this already--I'm just trying to cover all the bases here.

[Also you might simplify cat() to just "echo $id;" or something until it works.][/quote]

I'd tried simplifying the cat controller but hadn't tried directly trying to reference the controller via the browesr address bar ... so I tried that and it didn't work. I typed

http://localhost/ci/welcome/index/

in the address bar

and get the 404 Not Found screen.

thanks for perseverance!