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codeigniter

CodeIgniter Base URL

I have a CodeIgniter dev site in Google Cloud. The instance obtains a new IP address at every start. You can set the base URL to a domain or IP address in the “/application/config/config.php” file. Since it’s only a dev box, I don’t have a domain assigned. It’s accessible via IP address only which changes every time the instance is started. So here’s the workaround. I added some extra code in the config file to obtain the external IP address.

$realIP = file_get_contents("http://ipecho.net/plain");
$config['base_url'] = 'http://'.$realIP;

The code is using a service from ipecho.net which returns your external IP address. Works like a charm!

HTTPS in CodeIgniter

If you switched to HTTPS in Apache, make sure to update CodeIgniter’s config file.

vim /var/www/applications/config/config.php

Change the base URL to https.

$config['base_url']	= 'https://yourdomain.com/ci/';

CodeIgniter 2.1.3 on PHP7

If you’re still running older versions of CodeIgniter, here are a couple of tips to make it work with PHP7.

  1. Make sure to install all PHP tools and libraries that comes with PHP7. I was missing curl.
  2. Change your database driver from mysql to mysqli (application/config/config.php).
  3. Fix the /system/core/Common.php error or as some prefer, upgrade to a newer version.

Considering v2.1.3 is very old (currently 3.1.10) , I’m surprised it works with PHP7 with just a few modifications.