codeigniter application view folder location issue in fresh application
Your view folder path does not appear to be set correctly. Please open the following file and correct this: index.php i'm getting this error, i don't know what is wrong, i downloaded the rc3(release candidate 3) from the official website, unzipped it, added asset folder and helper and when i ran the application, i got the error Your view folder path does not appear to be set correctly. Please open the following file and correct this: index.php, this is my index.php file code and image shows the folder structure
// index.php code
<?php
/**
* CodeIgniter
*
* An open source application development framework for PHP
*
* This content is released under the MIT License (MIT)
*
* Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology
*
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* in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
* to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
* copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
* furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
*
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*
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* IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
* FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
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* LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
* OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN
* THE SOFTWARE.
*
* @package CodeIgniter
* @author EllisLab Dev Team
* @copyright Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (http://ellislab.com/)
* @copyright Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
* @license http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT MIT License
* @link http://codeigniter.com
* @since Version 1.0.0
* @filesource
*/
/*
*---------------------------------------------------------------
* APPLICATION ENVIRONMENT
*---------------------------------------------------------------
*
* You can load different configurations depending on your
* current environment. Setting the environment also influences
* things like logging and error reporting.
*
* This can be set to anything, but default usage is:
*
* development
* testing
* production
*
* NOTE: If you change these, also change the error_reporting() code below
*/
define('ENVIRONMENT', isset($_SERVER\['CI_ENV'\]) ? $_SERVER\['CI_ENV'\] : 'development');
/*
*---------------------------------------------------------------
* ERROR REPORTING
*---------------------------------------------------------------
*
* Different environments will require different levels of error reporting.
* By default development will show errors but testing and live will hide them.
*/
switch (ENVIRONMENT)
{
case 'development':
error_reporting(-1);
ini_set('display_errors', 1);
break;
case 'testing':
case 'production':
ini_set('display_errors', 0);
if (version_compare(PHP_VERSION, '5.3', '>='))
{
error_reporting(E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE & ~E_DEPRECATED & ~E_STRICT & ~E_USER_NOTICE & ~E_USER_DEPRECATED);
}
else
{
error_reporting(E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE & ~E_STRICT & ~E_USER_NOTICE);
}
break;
default:
header('HTTP/1.1 503 Service Unavailable.', TRUE, 503);
echo 'The application environment is not set correctly.';
exit(1); // EXIT_ERROR
}
/*
*---------------------------------------------------------------
* SYSTEM FOLDER NAME
*---------------------------------------------------------------
*
* This variable must contain the name of your "system" folder.
* Include the path if the folder is not in the same directory
* as this file.
*/
$system_path = 'system';
/*
*---------------------------------------------------------------
* APPLICATION FOLDER NAME
*---------------------------------------------------------------
*
* If you want this front controller to use a different "application"
* folder than the default one you can set its name here. The folder
* can also be renamed or relocated anywhere on your server. If
* you do, use a full server path. For more info please see the user guide:
* http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/general/managing_apps.html
*
* NO TRAILING SLASH!
*/
$application_folder = 'application';
/*
*---------------------------------------------------------------
* VIEW FOLDER NAME
*---------------------------------------------------------------
*
* If you want to move the view folder out of the application
* folder set the path to the folder here. The folder can be renamed
* and relocated anywhere on your server. If blank, it will default
* to the standard location inside your application folder. If you
* do move this, use the full server path to this folder.
*
* NO TRAILING SLASH!
*/
$view_folder = '';
/*
* --------------------------------------------------------------------
* DEFAULT CONTROLLER
* --------------------------------------------------------------------
*
* Normally you will set your default controller in the routes.php file.
* You can, however, force a custom routing by hard-coding a
* specific controller class/function here. For most applications, you
* WILL NOT set your routing here, but it's an option for those
* special instances where you might want to override the standard
* routing in a specific front controller that shares a common CI installation.
*
* IMPORTANT: If you set the routing here, NO OTHER controller will be
* callable. In essence, this preference limits your application to ONE
* specific controller. Leave the function name blank if you need
* to call functions dynamically via the URI.
*
* Un-comment the $routing array below to use this feature
*/
// The directory name, relative to the "controllers" folder. Leave blank
// if your controller is not in a sub-folder within the "controllers" folder
// $routing\['directory'\] = '';
// The controller class file name. Example: mycontroller
// $routing\['controller'\] = '';
// The controller function you wish to be called.
// $routing\['function'\] = '';
/*
* -------------------------------------------------------------------
* CUSTOM CONFIG VALUES
* -------------------------------------------------------------------
*
* The $assign_to_config array below will be passed dynamically to the
* config class when initialized. This allows you to set custom config
* items or override any default config values found in the config.php file.
* This can be handy as it permits you to share one application between
* multiple front controller files, with each file containing different
* config values.
*
* Un-comment the $assign_to_config array below to use this feature
*/
// $assign_to_config\['name_of_config_item'\] = 'value of config item';
// --------------------------------------------------------------------
// END OF USER CONFIGURABLE SETTINGS. DO NOT EDIT BELOW THIS LINE
// --------------------------------------------------------------------
/*
* ---------------------------------------------------------------
* Resolve the system path for increased reliability
* ---------------------------------------------------------------
*/
// Set the current directory correctly for CLI requests
if (defined('STDIN'))
{
chdir(dirname(__FILE__));
}
if (($_temp = realpath($system_path)) !== FALSE)
{
$system_path = $_temp.'/';
}
else
{
// Ensure there's a trailing slash
$system_path = rtrim($system_path, '/').'/';
}
// Is the system path correct?
if ( ! is_dir($system_path))
{
header('HTTP/1.1 503 Service Unavailable.', TRUE, 503);
echo 'Your system folder path does not appear to be set correctly. Please open the following file and correct this: '.pathinfo(__FILE__, PATHINFO_BASENAME);
exit(3); // EXIT_CONFIG
}
/*
* -------------------------------------------------------------------
* Now that we know the path, set the main path constants
* -------------------------------------------------------------------
*/
// The name of THIS file
define('SELF', pathinfo(__FILE__, PATHINFO_BASENAME));
// Path to the system folder
define('BASEPATH', str_replace('\\', '/', $system_path));
// Path to the front controller (this file)
define('FCPATH', dirname(__FILE__).'/');
// Name of the "system folder"
define('SYSDIR', trim(strrchr(trim(BASEPATH, '/'), '/'), '/'));
// The path to the "application" folder
if (is_dir($application_folder))
{
if (($_temp = realpath($application_folder)) !== FALSE)
{
$application_folder = $_temp;
}
define('APPPATH', $application_folder.DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR);
}
else
{
if ( ! is_dir(BASEPATH.$application_folder.DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR))
{
header('HTTP/1.1 503 Service Unavailable.', TRUE, 503);
echo 'Your application folder path does not appear to be set correctly. Please open the following file and correct this: '.SELF;
exit(3); // EXIT_CONFIG
}
define('APPPATH', BASEPATH.$application_folder.DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR);
}
// The path to the "views" folder
if ( ! is_dir($view_folder))
{
if ( ! empty($view_folder) && is_dir(APPPATH.$view_folder.DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR))
{
$view_folder = APPPATH.$view_folder;
}
elseif ( ! is_dir(APPPATH.'views'.DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR))
{
header('HTTP/1.1 503 Service Unavailable.', TRUE, 503);
echo 'Your view folder path does not appear to be set correctly. Please open the following file and correct this: '.SELF;
exit(3); // EXIT_CONFIG
}
else
{
$view_folder = APPPATH.'views';
}
}
if (($_temp = realpath($view_folder)) !== FALSE)
{
$view_folder = $_temp.DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR;
}
else
{
$view_folder = rtrim($view_folder, '/\\').DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR;
}
define('VIEWPATH', $view_folder);
/*
* --------------------------------------------------------------------
* LOAD THE BOOTSTRAP FILE
* --------------------------------------------------------------------
*
* And away we go...
*/
require_once BASEPATH.'core/CodeIgniter.php';
Answer
I had the same problem on Linux. The path was correct but the user (apache) didn't have permission to access the folder, so the 'is_dir' function returned FALSE.
I just changed the user and group permissions following this guide and now works OK: http://fideloper.com/user-group-permissions-chmod-apache
Hope it do the trick.