Configuring CodeIgniter in your localhost with WAMP server

Published on : April 8, 2013

Author: Masum

Category: Our Blog

Tag: condeigniter html theming

Once successful installation of CodeIgniter, you need to make a few modifications on CodeIgniter config file so that CodeIgniter is properly configured and can access your database.

Configuring Base URL:

To set Base URL open “config.php”, this is located in “/application/config/” relative to your root directory of CodeIgniter, for us, that would be “C:wampwwwCodeIgniterapplicationconfig”

On line 17, you will notice:

$config[‘base_url’] = “”;

Change blank URL to the URL of your CodeIgniter install server URL, so it should be:

$config[‘base_url’] = “http://localhost/CodeIgniter/”;

See image below:

Configuring Encryption Key:

In the same file, on line 220 you will notice it. Here I configured it as $config[‘encryption_key’] = ‘example‘ instead of $config[‘encryption_key’] = ”; See image below.

Configuring Database:

To create a database open a browser and go to http://localhost/phpmyadmin/. Create a database. I have created a database in name “example”.

To configure database open “database.php”, this is located in “/application/config/” relative to your root directory of CodeIgniter, for us, that would be “C:wampwwwCodeIgniterapplicationconfig”

On line 51, you will notice:

$db[‘default’][‘hostname’] = ‘localhost’;

$db[‘default’][‘username’] = ”;

$db[‘default’][‘password’] = ”;

$db[‘default’][‘database’] = ”;

$db[‘default’][‘dbdriver’] = ‘mysql’;

Change above these to

$db[‘default’][‘hostname’] = ‘localhost’;

$db[‘default’][‘username’] = ‘root’;

$db[‘default’][‘password’] = ”;

$db[‘default’][‘database’] = ‘ example ‘;

$db[‘default’][‘dbdriver’] = ‘mysql’;