Question

I need to allow a link like this www.example.com/example.mov to be accessed or downloaded via browser in a code igniter application. Right now i received a “Page not found” message. The file is in the root directory, but i think there is some config in Code Igniter not allowing this behavior.

Answer 1

If it’s a full url make sure you enter it as a full url ie http://www.example.com/example.mov if it’s a relative url on your server and it’s in the root use this:

<?php echo base_url().'example.mov'; ?>

Update, based on the file working from another location you could add this line to the .htaccess file in the root (the one in the same folder where the application folder is, not inside the application folder)

Redirect http://www.example.com/example.mov http://example.com/uploads/example.mov