Question

this is such a simple task, yet I can’t seem to get it to load a pdf.

I have a simple link on my view that links to a pdf stored in a downloads folder.

Is there something I’m missing about doing this in CodeIgniter?

<div class="node_title_grant">
  <a href="<?php echo base_url();?>index.php/downloads/grant.pdf" target="_blank">
    Grant
  </a>
</div>

then I have grant.pdf stored in a downloads folder in my application folder.

thanks in advance

Answer 1

Simply do the normal path …

href="<?php echo base_url(); ?>application/downloads/grant.pdf"

Or:

href="/application/downloads/grant.pdf"

Edit:

I believe .htaccess was the problem. Moving the downloads folder from inside applications to the root directory solved the issue.