Very simple routes question about /admin style routes

[eluser]clone45[/eluser]
Hello,

I'm having some trouble setting up my routes for an admin section of a site. I'm very new to CodeIgniter, so please excuse the simple question. I spent about 30 minutes googling it but none of the solutions worked for me.

Simply put, I wish to have my admin controllers in a subdirectory like to:

/application/controllers/admin/home.php
/application/controllers/admin/login.php

My home.php looks like:

Code:

<?php

class Home extends CI_Controller {

    public function index()
    {
        print('got to admin/home');
    }
}

?>

My login.php looks like:

Code:

<?php

class Login extends CI_Controller {

    public function index()
    {
        print('got to admin/login');
    }
}
?>

My routes.php contains nothing custom:

Code:

$route['default_controller'] = "homepage";
$route['404_override'] = '';

With this setup:

http://www.mysite.com/index.php/admin/login <=== does not work (404)
http://www.mysite.com/index.php/admin/home <=== works!

I'm coming from Zend, so I'm still getting my head around the CI routes. In the long run, it would be nice to have a route that basically said, "route URLs that look like /admin/controller/action appropriately"

Thanks!
- Bret

[eluser]PhilTem[/eluser]
You will not need any routes to allow URIs of type "example.com/admin/controller/method" to the corresponding controller as long as it is located in

Code:

APPPATH . 'controllers/admin/';

because CI automatically checks for a folder called admin if it does not find a controller/file called admin.php in

Code:

APPPATH . 'controllers/';

Anyway, I'm wondering why admin/home works for you and admin/login doesn't. Did you try accessing admin/home/index and admin/login/index separately?

[eluser]clone45[/eluser]
Ah,

Well, I figured it out. It wasn't CodeIgniter's fault. Somehow I ended up with my login.php controller being blank. I don't know how that happened. It must have been some bug in my Aptana editor or, more likely, a problem between the chair and the keyboard (me). Ha ha ha.

Thanks for the explanation on how routes work with folders.
- Bret