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Once your server is set up, go to the CodeIgniter site at (http://www.codeigniter.com/) and download the latest version of the framework. Version 1.7.2, the latest, it is only 2.1 MB when zipped, so it doesn't take much time to download the framework.
Unzip the folder, and install the CodeIgniter files in your website's root folder. If you are using XAMPP Lite, this is usually the htdocs
folder within the xampplite
folder. For WAMP it is www
inside the wamp
folder.
The CodeIgniter index.php
file should be in the root directory. The root folder is the folder that you would point at if you navigated to the site—in this case, by accessing http://127.0.0.1
. If you put CodeIgniter in some other directory you will need to point to that directory. For example, if you create a folder called codeigniter
inside your WAMP installation, you will need to put http://127.0.0.1/codeigniter
, in order to access your CodeIgniter...