Running CodeIgniter Project locally on Windows - codeigniter

Question

My CodeIgniter project is located in
C:/xampp/htdocs/Project/CodeIgniter/myproject
And I am using Xampp.
I set a base URL like this but it is not working.
$config['base_url'] = 'http://localhost:3000/myproject';
How I can run this project locally.

Answer 1

Quick debug time.
So what happens if you just use http://localhost in the url?
You should see whatever is in C:/xampp/htdocs/. So if you have a index.php in there, that should show up. If you don't have an index.php, then create one and see what happens.
Unless you have done "other things" in your setup, your Server Document Root will be C:/xampp/htdocs/. So it will be expecting your projects to be under that folder.
Now, you have decided to put your project under C:/xampp/htdocs/Project/CodeIgniter/myproject
So you would need to use http://localhost/Project/CodeIgniter/myproject
Do you get the Codeigniter welcome ( NOTE: if you haven't altered the default route)
A very quick fix, using your current settings, would be to relocate your project to
C:/xampp/htdocs/myproject as this is where the server is expecting to see it with the URL you are using.
What happens?
Personally, I never use localhost and create a virtual host which from memory XAMPP allows you to do from its management window. That way your project files can be located anywhere as long as the server knows where to find them. I will leave that as a project for you to look at.

Answer 2

How does your .htaccess file looks like?
It should look like this:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /myproject
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?$1 [L]

Answer 3

Replace
$config['base_url'] = 'http://localhost:3000/myproject';
To
$config['base_url'] = "http://".$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'];
$config['base_url'] = preg_replace('#/+$#','',dirname($_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME'])).'/';
And your .htaccess file should look like this :
Options +FollowSymLinks
Options -Indexes
DirectoryIndex index.php
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php|assets|images|css|js|install|robots\.txt|favicon\.ico)
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?/$1 [L,QSA]

Answer 4

check your project path
and site base url
$config['base_url'] = 'http://localhost/your_project_path/';
if you have port
$config['base_url'] = 'http://localhost:3000/myproject';
in application/config/config.php
after that index.php is run
and set database connection if you want to conncet db
in your_project/application/config/database.php
db['default']['username'] ='your_db_root_user';
$db['default']['password'] = 'your_db_root_password';
$db['default']['database'] = 'database_name';
// The following values can probably stay the same.
$db['default']['hostname'] = 'localhost:3000';
$db['default']['dbdriver'] = "mysqli";
$db['default']['dbprefix'] = "";
$db['default']['pconnect'] = TRUE;
$db['default']['db_debug'] = true;
$db['default']['cache_on'] = FALSE;
$db['default']['cachedir'] = "";
$db['default']['char_set'] = "utf8";
$db['default']['dbcollat'] = "utf8_general_ci";