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Ragnar
Posted: 10 August 2012 06:06 AM   [ Ignore ]
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Hi!

I am new to CI and new to php and I hope some one will have enough patience to help me out.

I got stuck before I got started. I have uploaded all the files to my server and I am reading the User Guide but there is something that doesn’t click in my brain. Where is the coding environment? Am I on the right track when I suspect that I should open a file in my Safari browser from my URL?

Sorry for being such a dumb…...!

/Ragnar
 
InsiteFX
Posted: 10 August 2012 08:55 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 1 ]   [ Rating: 0 ]
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If your site is setup correct it just show your site when you go to your domain.
It will run index.php

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dc3.Software
Posted: 19 August 2012 06:34 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 2 ]   [ Rating: 0 ]
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My web hosting site doesn’t permit index.php.  So my solution was to create the following index.html that invoked index.php:

<html><head>Invoke CI</head>
<body>
<! comment !>
<A HREF="http://[your-site-url]/index.php/welcome"> Invoke CI welcome controller </A>
</body>
</html> 

I first used “/welcome” as the name of the CI controller to use.  I change “welcome” when I want to use a different CI controller.  By the way, the next part of my answer might be the real answer to your questions.

I use NotePad or “Edit Pad Lite” (free) to edit the PHP code which I place in the “application/views” folder (or elsewhere) as the tutorial directs.  I use “FileZilla” (free) to upload my code to my web site via FTP.  I am a new user also, so you can contact me if you have any other problems.  Good Luck!

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dc3.Software
Posted: 20 August 2012 05:05 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 3 ]   [ Rating: 0 ]
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Today, I installed XAMPP v1.7.7 (because I failed to install v1.8.0 on my Windows 7).  I see that XAMPP will greatly facilitate my PHP testing. The FTP upload steps have now been eliminated during development. I am not yet doing my development on my Linux Ubuntu system.  This means that I have not yet included the “L” for Linux in my Local LAMP Stack, but that will be my next step.  The “AMP” refer to the free modules: Apache, MySQL and PHP (with CodeIgniter speeding up the process even more) . . . wow . . . thanks for all the help.

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