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Asked: 2026-06-11T16:56:17+00:00

First off, I’m not a codeigniter developer, though I’ve had some exposure to it

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First off, I’m not a codeigniter developer, though I’ve had some exposure to it and MVC in general. I inherited a project where the companies old dev had taken down their codeigniter website and replaced it with a static one page html thing. They did this by (as far as I can tell) just renaming the index.php and putting an index.html in the root.

So… I moved all the codeigniter files to a subdirectory, and renamed the index.php file appropriately

Now the homepage appears, but all internal links are broken with an internal (500) server error.

I’ve done a couple things to no avail:

  • modified the config.php base_url to include the subdir: $config['base_url'] = "http://". $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']."/subdir/";
  • tried all the options for $config['uri_protocol']

Anyone have any ideas? I really just need to recover the data from the site, which I can do manually just by looking in the database and some other stuff coded directly into the views – but I’d rather just get the old site running in the subdirectory.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Is $config['index_page'] = ''; ?

    Is the server running Apache? If so, what about the .htaccess rules? If so, you may need to add a RewriteBase rule, like so:

    RewriteBase /subdir/

    We’re going off the assumption that the old dev used anchor(), base_url(), and/or site_url() correctly. If they hard-coded the links (which you shouldn’t do with CI), then you’d have to write .htaccess rules to rewrite them to the new sub directory or edit the controllers/views that might be generating such links.

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