I'm trying to set up routing to a page on my site with Codeigniter, but I just get a 403. I can't understand why.
Code in the routes config file is:
$route['photo/(:num)'] = "viewphoto/view/$1";
$route['photo'] = 'photo';
$route['photos'] = "photospage/index";
$route['photos'] = 'photos';
$route['default_controller'] = 'homepage';
$route['homepage'] = 'homepage';
When going to mysite.com/photo/2 (for example) it works fine, as does the homepage. But when going to mysite.com/photos I just get a 403 Forbidden error message.
I can't work it out, the routing is set to exctly the same as the mysite.com/photo/2 routing.
The controller it's pointing to is called photospage and the function inside it is called index.
If I go to mysite.com/photos/index it works though...
Any help is most appreciated :)
EDIT:
Change the routes config file to the following but it still doesn't work when I go to mysite.com/photos. I changed the controller function to a 'view' instead of 'index' but it still won't work :(
$route['photos'] = "photos/view";
$route['photo/(:num)'] = "viewphoto/view/$1";
$route['default_controller'] = 'homepage';
homepage and photo/$id still work fine though.
Your rewrite rule should be:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php|images|robots\.txt)
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php/$1 [L]
You have to remove your index.php entry from your /application/config/config.php
Verify that is setup correctly the 403 forbidden error might be due to a faulty .htaccess rewrite.