Codeigniter, routing is not functioning on production server

Question

I have 3 servers, a localhost apache server, a testing remote server and the production live server.

I have the same installation of codeigniter and site set-up on a

Answer 1

Check your Apache virtual host configuration and verify that you have AllowOverride All in your directory definition.

Answer 2

1. Maybe something is wrong with your .htaccess file?

   Once I had problem when I moved application to production server, because RewriteBase was set to some directory on development server.

   On my production server application was in web root directory, so RewriteBase should be /, and i had /something there.

2. Once i had silly problem with upper/lowercases, when i moved site from development server (windows) to production (linux).

Answer 3

I had the same problem. I was using function to convert article names to URL's (slugify).

On localhost and on server this function returned slightly different urls.

Answer 4

This is quite a common problem that often occurs when people move a codeigniter install from one environment to another. I have no idea why it occurs, could be a difference in server OS or apache settings, but the solution is often to add a question mark ? to the RewriteRule for the index.php in your .htaccess file.

Old:

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/$1 [L]

New:

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?/$1 [L]