Installing codeIgniter on wamp server – Part 1

Installing CodeIgniter under wampserver

Before you start, You must have a wampserver installed on your windows with a php version 5.3 or higher.

Unzip the downloaded Codeigniter package under  windows www wampserver folder (default install c:\wamp\www\) and rename it as “extradrm” for example (c:\wamp\www\extradrm)

To avoid index.php problems and redirecting default installation codeIgniter later create from now a .htaccess file on the extradrm root folder as following :

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /extradrm/

#Removes access to the system folder by users.
#Additionally this will allow you to create a System.php controller,
#previously this would not have been possible.
#'system' can be replaced if you have renamed your system folder.
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^system.*
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php?/$1 [L]

#When your application folder isn't in the system folder
#This snippet prevents user access to the application folder
#Submitted by: Fabdrol
#Rename 'application' to your applications folder name.
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^application.*
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php?/$1 [L]

#Checks to see if the user is attempting to access a valid file,
#such as an image or css document, if this isn't true it sends the
#request to index.php
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?/$1 [L]
</IfModule>

<IfModule !mod_rewrite.c>
# If we don't have mod_rewrite installed, all 404's
# can be sent to index.php, and everything works as normal.
# Submitted by: ElliotHaughin

ErrorDocument 404 /index.php
</IfModule>

Launch http://localhost/extradrm and you must see the default codeigniter home page.

To read Part 2, on activating database mode sessions under codeigniter click Here.
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