It’s the first real night of actual work on the app, and already I’ve run into my first gotcha!
For security reasons I decided to move the /system folder - which contains everything needed to run an application on CodeIgniter apart from the index.php file - outside of the web root. This is easily accomplished by changing the $system_folder path in the aforementioned index.php file… but then everything stopped working.
Five minutes of head-scratching later, I figured out what I had done.
Because I’m working on my local development machine, instead of moving the /system folder up a level, I actually moved the index.php down a level - and I’d forgotten to move the .htaccess file along with it, so Apache was dutifully trying to rewrite every request to a non-existent file.
Stupid mistake, easy fix.
July 9th, 2008 at 9:59 pm
Working on the app already..?
I had a major laugh in regard to your project to list:
* Set up development blog
* Design logo
* Build app
Just the way I work on personal projects, even though I don’t like to do it this way… even when writing papers I still do ye old high school approach: nice front page, title-finding … header and footer design. Last night before deadline: write goddamn essay.
Anyway - just though it was a fun todo list.
July 10th, 2008 at 10:31 am
Thanks, Peter - to be honest, I actually develop more like a programmer. Non-existent interface design, Times New Roman and nasty table borders are the order of the day at this stage!