Installing Sparks assumes that you are abiding by the default CodeIgniter installation pattern; extracting the application, system, and user guide folders, along with with a index.php and a license file into your web root.
However, many of us pull the application and system folders out of the web root for security reasons and re-route the $system_path and $application_folder variables in the main index.php file.
This separation tends to break Spark installs. In particular, the simple example-spark used in the getsparks installation instructions.
Getting an error:
An Error Was Encountered Cannot find
spark path at
sparks/example-spark/1.0.0/
I maintain the following directory structure:
- CISYS
- V202
- V200
- project1_application
- project2_application
- project3_application
- www (public html)
- project1
- css
- js
- images
- etc
- project2
- etc
- project1
What must I reroute to achieve both security + sparks? Open to suggestions of any sort. How do you set up your installation?
To answer my own question: The solution was in the MY_Loader.php file. By modifying the SPARKPATH variable on line 43, one can reroute the location of all sparks! Cheers!