CodeIgniter resides in subfolder

[eluser]Unknown[/eluser]
Dear CI Community,

I recently stumbled over this issue for a certain project:

I simply want to put the CI files in a subfolder let's say /t_dynamic/
which is accessible via web by the uri /www.testsite.com/test/...

Following Threads refer to this topic more or less
"Subdirectory Installation"

"Setting default_controller when app is not at root of domain points to:
"Default Controller Bug"

Also it relates somehow to the already closed (thanks Derek Jones ;-) ) bug
[url="http://codeigniter.com/bug_tracker/bug/3191/]"CI Fails when bootstrap is not in Web Root in some Setups[/url]

I would throw in another solution which works for me (experimental state, not fully tested yet):

Since I'm just scratching the Surface of CI, I know this is not a clean and sufficient solution,
but maybe there is a more elegant solution already posted somewhere else.

Feedback/Discussion appreciated

1. Precondition: The files of CI resides in the subdir t_dynamic

2. .htaccess:
RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php|images|robots\.txt)
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/t_dynamic/
RewriteRule ^test/(.*)$ /t_dynamic/index.php/urinode/handler/$1 [NC,L]

3. system/application/config/config.php:
added following line

Code:

$config[’uri_offset’] = “test”;

4. system/libraries/URI.php:

4.1 added methode to class CI_URI:

Code:

function _eliminate_urioffset()
{
  $this->uri_string = preg_replace("/^\/”.$this->config->item(’uri_offset’)."/", “”, $this->uri_string );
  // If the URI contains only a slash we’ll kill it
  if ($this->uri_string == ‘/’)
  {
    $this->uri_string = ‘’;
  }
}

4.2 modified methode _fetch_uri_string():

after each assignment of

Code:

$this->uri_string = ...

I added:

Code:

$this->_eliminate_urioffset();

SurnameJohn

[eluser]Michael Wales[/eluser]
So, all you are wanting is the CI framework files in subdirectory of where the rest of the application resides? Let's say a folder structure like this:

- webroot
-- controllers
-- models
-- views
-- system

All you have to do is move the index.php bootstrap file to the web_root and change the system path and app path within that file...

I do this all the time - my subfolders contain nothing but the actual application files and the index.php bootstrap and the framework resides one-level up, outside of what is web accessible.

[eluser]Unknown[/eluser]
Thanks for your response Michael!

Your solution looks much more simpler.

But one piece distracts my goal: I want to have static html/shtml files side by side with CI while the index.html/index.shtml is served first and
CI is just accessed when the subdir is given in the uri,

/www.testsite.com/t_dynamic/

or more hidden via rewrite

/www.testsite.com/whatever/

My initial picture in mind was the whole CI in a subfolder:

/webroot
-index.html
-index.shtml
-/01static
--staticfile1.shtml
--staticfiel2.shtml
-/t_dynamic
--index.php
--/system
---/application
---/cache
---/codeigniter
---/...
---/scaffolding

So if Cis index.php is located in the webroot, the access to the static html/shtml files is not given,
according to my current knowledge/testing. If I'm wrong here, Info is appreciated

My first Idea for this was to write a special controller, which serves the html/shtml files
in case of suffix .html or .shtml in the uri. But during coding I had the simple idea to move the whole CI in a subdir.

SurnameJohn

[eluser]Rian[/eluser]
I'm having somewhat of the same problem. My CI setup is running from a subfolder in the domain and it fails to load the default controller.

Gives 404:
http://foo.bar.tld/sub/
http://foo.bar.tld/sub/index.php
http://foo.bar.tld/sub/index.php/

works:
http://foo.bar.tld/sub/index.php/ControllerName


Needless to say I'd like the first 3 links to function properly as well

htaccess:

Code:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /backend
RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php|vis|robots\.txt)
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/$1 [L]

url as defined in the config:
http://foo.bar.tld/sub/

I'd prefer not to hack in the CI libs.. but then, I'd also prefer not to have to use a specific domain for the subfolder.. Any thoughts?