Hi there,

$config[‘base_url’] = “https://”.$_SERVER[‘HTTP_HOST’];

the above works great on intranet, internet and SSL. Thanks!

paulopmx - 05 September 2007 09:19 AM

Don’t you just hate it, when you move from development server to production server that you have to change the $config[’base_url’] setting?

Well I do. Because I do it a lot, specially when I’m demoing a web application, that’s why I added this code to the config.php

$root = "http://".$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'];
$root .= str_replace(basename($_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME']),"",$_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME']);

$config['base_url']    = "$root";

Once thats added, Codeigniter base_url will adapt to whatever the url you’re using.

My suggestion:

index.php (the main file of your CI application) :

config.php:

...you can improve the protocol detection.

BR!

I’ve recently discovered that, sometimes scriptname is incorrectly parsed and includes the slashes after index.php, and when that happens, basename also fails.

So I’ve adapted the script below.

$url = $_SERVER[‘SCRIPT_NAME’];
$url = substr($url,0,strpos($url,”.php”));
$url = substr($url,0,(strlen($url) - strpos(strrev($url),”/”)));
$url = ((empty($_SERVER[‘HTTPS’]) OR $_SERVER[‘HTTPS’] === ‘off’) ? ‘http’ : ‘https’).”://”.$_SERVER[‘HTTP_HOST’].$url;

$config[‘base_url’] = $url;

should work even if your web app is in a very deep subfolder.

Hi i am beginner in php and code igniter. I have a free hosting on which i can’t modify the allow_url_fopen and allow_url_include.

In config i have

And i get error:

(as you can see here http://lysiu.pl/wl2)

Can you tell me what value i need to set in base_url to get it work?

TIA

Oh, you shouldn’t be using base_url in an include or library load because base_url includes http://, etc.

Instead use a relative path, such as require_once(”../views/glowna_v.php”), or $this->load->view(‘glowna_v’).

thanks, on irc channel i have asked the same question and i have ended with this:

and it is working now, thanks

I use this, because all the logic you guys are doing is already done by the browser.

Now that does not work everywhere. It works only if the site is at the root level. When online, that works but on localhost the site rarely is in the root level(I have tons of aliases set up in my localhost).

What is wrong with you people?

Haha.. Not to mention there are more elegant ways to work locally than subdir-ing the hell out of localhost. VirtualHost, anyone?