[FIXED] How to set proper codeigniter base url?

Issue

when I had my site on development environment - it was url: testurl.com

Now on production server my codeigniter app's address has to be someurl.com/mysite/

I moved it there, and everytime I'm trying to run some function, example /home/test - it gets me into someurl.com/home/test - which is WRONG.

It has to be someurl.com/mysite/home/test - How to fix it? I did set

$config['base_url'] = someurl.com/mysite/

Solution

Base URL should be absolute, including the protocol:

$config['base_url'] = "http://somesite.com/somedir/";

If using the URL helper, then base_url() will output the above string.

Passing arguments to base_url() or site_url() will result in the following (assuming $config['index_page'] = "index.php";:

echo base_url('assets/stylesheet.css'); // http://somesite.com/somedir/assets/stylesheet.css
echo site_url('mycontroller/mymethod'); // http://somesite.com/somedir/index.php/mycontroller/mymethod

Answered By - Brendan