Dot in base url codeigniter

Question

I have got a source code of a codeigniter project.in the config.php file there is a dot in the base url.

Code:

$config['base_url'] = 'http://codeigniter-ajaxcrud.local/';

what is the purpose of using this dot in the base url?

Answer 1

So actually they have created virtual host in local machine.

You also can create virtual host in your local machine, Please find below example so you can understand it in brief.

Open this file if you are using xampp, and add this line at the end of page.

c:\xampp\apache\conf\extra\httpd-vhosts.conf

<VirtualHost codeigniter-ajaxcrud.local:80>
      DocumentRoot "C:/xampp/htdocs/codeigniter-ajaxcrud"
      ServerName codeigniter-ajaxcrud.local
      ServerAlias www.codeigniter-ajaxcrud.local
      <Directory "c:/xampp/htdocs/codeigniter-ajaxcrud">
          Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes ExecCGI
          AllowOverride All
          Require all Granted
      </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

Once you done with this add codeigniter-ajaxcrud.local in hosts file. This file will be located in below location in windows.

Drivers/etc/host

add below line at end of the page.

127.0.0.1         codeigniter-ajaxcrud.local

Once you done with this please save all files and restart apache server. Than this host will work.