Question

I recently had to move a CodeIgniter based website from the web root of:

/var/www/vhosts/dev/

to:

/var/www/vhosts/dev/site1/

The problem I am encountering is that I need the web root to still remain accessible from the domain: http://www.devdomain.com

All relative links now are broken since they obviously were referring to the web root.
Is there a rewrite rule or something at the top-level I can use that will automatically add the site1/ to all relative based links?

So, what would have normally been;

<a href="/enrollment">Enrollment</a>
https://www.devdomain.com/enrollment

Now needs to become;

<a href="/enrollment">Enrollment</a>
https://www.devdomain.com/site1/enrollment

Any help would be extremely appreciated.

Answer 1

The $config[‘base_url’] fix Nikola mentions would work if you used, in your links, the

<a href="<?php echo base_url(); ?>/enrollment">Enrollment</a>

Since apparently you don’t want to go through the code the problem isn’t in Codeigniter but in the server (?). Maybe a RewriteRule in the .htaccess file can help you (if you’re on Apache).

I can’t comment other answers since my rep level is low, otherwise I would’ve simply commented on Nikola’s answer.

EDIT: I just figured this out. You have to remove the initial “/” from the href attributes! It is going to the root of the webserver, it is being a relative link but not the way you think. If you remove the “/” the link will go to a file on the same directory level of your file (in this case the Codeigniter installation). Sorry but you’ll have to go through your whole code.

Additionally I would recommend for you to use site_url() to link between controllers inside Codeigniter, helps with this kind of situations and a lot others.

SECOND EDIT: It’s not site_url() but base_url(), sorry for the confusion. Just corrected the code.