Migrating install - stumped!

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• admin

  January 2011 edited 12:33PM

  That sounds like it may be a difference in the URI_PROTOCOL used by CodeIgniter. Try the following:
  
  1. Got to the fuel/application/config/config.php file and change
  $config['index_page'] = 'index.php?'; // Note the question mark at the end
  2. In the same config file, right below the index_page config item, change $config['uri_protocol'] = 'QUERY_STRING';
  3. In .htaccess, change the line towards the bottom where it says
  RewriteRule .* index.php/$0 [L]
  to
  RewriteRule .* index.php?/$0 [L]
  
  Here is another forum thread that talks about this issue (if this is what you are experiencing)
  http://www.getfuelcms.com/forums/discussion/comment/80/#Comment_80
• allank

  January 2011 edited 12:33PM

  OK, I just grabbed the latest tarball from github and installed it clean to a new subdomain on my host, let's call it http://example.com
  
  Standard welcome screen (with install instructions), but when I select the link to the dashboard - http://example.com/fuel/dashboard - it simply shows the same welcome screen again.
  
  I made the changes that you suggested and refreshed the home page at http://example.com - the link to the dashboard is now http://example.com/index.php?/fuel
  
  When I follow that link it now gives the nice red and blue 404 page.
  
  Could it be a .htaccess thing? cpanel is creating the subdomains for me, and it might not be putting the correct AllowOverride into the vhost configuration? I guess if it wasn't working, the http://example.com/fuel/dashboard URL would give an Apache 404...
• allank

  January 2011 edited 12:33PM

  moved it out of subdomain and into main domain, same result. Most bleak
• admin

  January 2011 edited January 2011

  It may be an .htaccess issue. Are you sure mod_rewrite is allowed on the host? Also, did you set "admin_enabled" to TRUE in the fuel/application/config/MY_fuel.php file?
• allank

  January 2011 edited 12:33PM

  .htaccess is working fine - I just amended it to Deny From All as a test and it stopped me dead Reverting to the Fuel bundled .htaccess gave me back the home page.
  
  Changing the "admin_enabled" makes no difference.
• admin

  January 2011 edited 12:33PM

  Do you have a URL you can send me (you can email it to me if you don't want to post it here)?
  
  Also, are you able to get to any of these pages:
  http://example.com/index.php/fuel
  http://example.com/index.php/about
  http://example.com/index.php?/about
• allank

  January 2011 edited 12:33PM

  http://example.com/index.php/fuel works
  
  I've amended my config.php to use index.php as the index page, created an about page, but that at http://example.com/index.php/about gives a 404. May need to go poke the config with a stick some more.
• admin

  January 2011 edited 12:33PM

  Also, is the mod_rewrite module working with your .htaccess (it is possible to have .htaccess enabled but not have the mod_rewrite module installed). Have you used this server before with other CI projects using mod_rewrite?
• allank

  January 2011 edited 12:33PM

  I've used Wordpress on this server before, which (I assumed) was using mod_rewrite to prettify the URL's. Confirmed by amending .htaccess to be:
  
  Options +FollowSymLinks
  
  Deny From All
  
  Options -Indexes
  
  which gave me the Apache denied message
• allank

  January 2011 edited 12:33PM

  The forum sanitized that comment - the Deny From All was wrapped in an IfModule mod_rewrite.c
• admin

  January 2011 edited 12:33PM

  Hmm... You may want to try throwing up a basic CI 2 install with a simple controller and page (e.g. http://example.com/about) and seeing if you can get that to work with .htaccess and mod_rewrite (the .htaccess that comes with FUEL should be similar to what is normally recommended with CI):
  http://codeigniter.com/wiki/mod_rewrite/
• admin

  January 2011 edited 12:33PM

  Also, it may be helpful to know what the actual uri_protocol is being used by debugging the code in the fuel/codeigniter/core/URI.php _fetch_uri_string method and with the uri_protocol set to auto in the config.
• admin

  January 2011 edited January 2011

  I made the wrong assumption earlier that you were using the 0.91 branch so the link:
  http://example.com/index.php/about
  
  Would not work anyways. However this link should for the 0.9 branch:
  http://www.aseasyas.co.za/index.php/example
  
  Which is a static view file that comes with that branch. I'd be curious to know if are able to get a normal CI install to work on that server using mod_rewrite.
  
  Here are some additional links you may find useful in debugging this:
  http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1442854/codeigniter-problem-with-mod-rewrite-on-apache-1-3
  http://design.fred-lin.com/blog/view/19
• allank

  January 2011 edited 12:33PM

  thanks - I'll try a CI 2 install a bit later today to see what happens.
• allank

  January 2011 edited 12:33PM

  CI 2 gave the same error. I cycled through all possible values of $config['uri_protocol'] until 'ORIG_PATH_INFO' finally worked!
  
  Of course now the base href being reported by site_url() ends in a double trailing slash, and all my css and js scripts begin with a double slash, but at least the fixed routing means I can at least see what's happening on the server.
  
  thanks again for all the effort!
• admin

  January 2011 edited 12:33PM

  Great! Glad you figured it out.
  
  With regards to the double slashes, that may be due to how the $config['base_url'] and WEB_PATH are set. The WEB_PATH constant is defined in the fuel/modules/config/fuel_constants.php file.