Question

I’m building my website in codeigniter, and here an example of a routing rule that’s giving me some trouble:

$route['updategamepage/(:num)'] = 'maincontroller/main/updategamepage/$1';

So is there anything wrong with the format/structure of the rule? Here is an example url that uses that rule:

http://www.mydomain.com/ci_website/updategamepage/6

and when that page gets loaded, the css/js don’t get loaded with the page…any idea on whats going wrong?

Answer 1

Your routing rule should only apply to things that get routed through CodeIgniter’s index.php file. That routing is dictated by the application’s .htaccess file. It’s possible that your htaccess is redirecting requests to your .css file to CodeIgniter when you don’t want it to.

Ultimately you may way to check your web server logs, including potentially enabling mod_rewrite logging, to see what’s actually going on.

Here is an example .htaccess that I use for my CodeIgniter apps:

(Notice you will have to change the RewriteBase directive near the top)

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

#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>