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codeigniter routing issues?

Hi

Just starting out with codeigniter and have a couple of problems...

I have a simple controller, called public_site.php

in the routes.php I have set the default_controller to public_site

the controller has 2 methods

index

about

1: if I browse to ‘www.myurl.com/ci’ the index page displays fine

2: if I browse to ‘www.myurl.com/ci/index.php/about’ i get a 404 page not found

3: however if i browse to ‘www.myurl.com/ci/index.php/public_site/about’ it displays the page

also I am having problems with the location of the css.. in scenario 1 above the page displays with css correct, however with scenario 3, the page displays with no css… how do you keep track of the css location if you are using a template header and footer?

Thanks

cycledude

frisoft

Your first example is basically the call of www.myurl.com/ci/index.php/public_site/index
if You want the ‘www.myurl.com/ci/index.php/about url to work too, you should define route, for example in \application\config\routes.php add a line:
$route['about'] = 'public_site/about'

For css, js and other assets (and in fact for any url) i recommend use of the full path, see helper site_url() for the base url of your site.

cycledude

ASKER

@frisoft

thanks for the help, adding the about route sorted it...

I am a little confused as I thought that was what the 'default_controller' was for...

so that anything in the url after index.php would be a method in the default_controller?

maybe I got the wrong impression?

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cycledude

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Thanks for the help, it was much appreciated.