After deployment to server codeigniter app gives 404

Question

Hi,

I'm developing on Mac OSX with MAMP. My app is built on top of CodeIgniter 1.7.2 and works fine on my develoment machine.

Now I copied the to my test environment, which is Ubuntu Server 9.10.

A standard, fresh CI install works perfectly but when I put my app in the same dir, I get errors.

If I just go to my root, I get a 404. On my dev machine, it is also under the root, not in a folder.

If I use the full path, it works but I get errors that a library could not be loaded and stuff.

What is going on here :s

Answer 1

I guess this might happening due to some directory permission errors. do a #ls -l and compare the permissions on both your fresh CI dir and your existing project dir.

Answer 2

I found it, it seems the controllers are case sensitive (why?)

If my url is http://example.com/setcal/thefunction but the controller filename is named SetCal.php (and the class SetCal) then it is not found.

I rename the file and class to all lowercase and it works fine.

I find that strange though. Isn't mac (dev machine) supposed to be case sensitive too?

And why on earth is there case sensitivity in the first place? What is the point?