Setup CodeIgniter

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local

Overview

The following configuration will be used:

Project name	VirtualHost directory	Database	TLD_SUFFIX	Project URL
my-ci	/shared/httpd/my-ci	my_ci	loc	http://my-ci.loc

Walk through

It will be ready in eight simple steps:

Enter the PHP container
Create a new VirtualHost directory
Download CodeIgniter
Symlink webroot directory
Add MySQL database
Configure datbase connection
Setup DNS record
Visit http://my-ci.loc in your browser

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1. Enter the PHP container

host> ./shell.sh

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2. Create new vhost directory

devilbox@php-7.0.20 in /shared/httpd $ mkdir my-ci

3. Download CodeIgniter

devilbox@php-7.0.20 in /shared/httpd $ cd my-ci
devilbox@php-7.0.20 in /shared/httpd/my-ci $ wget https://github.com/bcit-ci/CodeIgniter/archive/3.1.8.tar.gz
devilbox@php-7.0.20 in /shared/httpd/my-ci $ tar xfvz 3.1.8.tar.gz
devilbox@php-7.0.20 in /shared/httpd/my-ci $ ls -l
total 7488
drwxr-xr-x 5 devilbox devilbox    4096 Mar 22 15:48 CodeIgniter-3.1.8/
-rw-r--r-- 1 devilbox devilbox 2205672 May 21 10:42 3.1.8.tar.gz

4. Symlink webroot

devilbox@php-7.0.20 in /shared/httpd/my-ci $ ln -s CodeIgniter-3.1.8/ htdocs

5. Add MySQL Database

devilbox@php-7.0.20 in /shared/httpd/my-ci $ mysql -u root -h 127.0.0.1 -p -e 'CREATE DATABASE my_ci;'

6. Configure database connection

devilbox@php-7.0.20 in /shared/httpd/my-ci $ vi htdocs/application/config/database.php

<?php
$db['default'] = array(
        'dsn'   => '',
        'hostname' => '127.0.0.1',
        'username' => 'root',
        'password' => '',
        'database' => 'my_ci',
        'dbdriver' => 'mysqli',
        'dbprefix' => '',
        'pconnect' => FALSE,
        'db_debug' => (ENVIRONMENT !== 'production'),
        'cache_on' => FALSE,
        'cachedir' => '',
        'char_set' => 'utf8',
        'dbcollat' => 'utf8_general_ci',
        'swap_pre' => '',
        'encrypt' => FALSE,
        'compress' => FALSE,
        'stricton' => FALSE,
        'failover' => array(),
        'save_queries' => TRUE
);

7. DNS record

If you do not have global_configuration_auto_dns configured, you will need to add the following line to your host operating systems /etc/hosts file (or C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc on Windows):

127.0.0.1 my-ci.loc

For in-depth info about adding DNS records on Linux, Windows or MacOS see: project_configuration_dns_records or global_configuration_auto_dns.

8. Open your browser

All set now, you can visit http://my-ci.loc in your browser.

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