CodeIgniter Controller Case-Sensitive

Question

I am doing my CI project on a localhost, and I never tried to upload it live. Now, this is the first time that I have uploaded my CI project into a web hosting and the URLs are case-sensitive.

www.mywebsite.com/content

The above code works on localhost, but it doesn't work on live server. This one works:

www.mywebsite.com/Content

As you notice, there's a capital C in it.

Should I change all the anchors that leads to the Content controller, or is there a way that when I enter www.mywebsite.com/content will be converted to www.mywebsite.com/Content ?

Have look through here http://www.codeigniter.com/user_guide/general/styleguide.html — , Sep 09 '16 at 10:38
Couple things to check. Do all the controller files have a upper-case first character in the actual file name? (e.g. **C**ontent.php) Is the item `$config['base_url']` set correctly in `/application/config/config.php`? — DFriend, Sep 09 '16 at 10:42
Yes, all of the controllers start with a capital letter and the base_url is properly set — aronccs, Sep 09 '16 at 10:43
This is strange because it should not make any difference whether the URL is `/Content` or `/content`. My sites do not behave that way - both will go to the expected page. — DFriend, Sep 09 '16 at 10:47
In localhost, it is case insensitive. I don't know what happened — aronccs, Sep 09 '16 at 11:06

score 3 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:17

As you said you are using CI 3.

Codeigniter change log says

Changed filenaming convention (class file names now must be Ucfirst and everything else in lowercase). So you controllers and files name should be

My_controller (only M upper case rest lower case)
Public_controller
Application_controller
Foo_controller

CI-2 was better in this case.

Codeigniter Class and filename case sensitive on Linux (centos)

Note 1:

Windows hosting and Linux hosting has difference in file names.(Also Most of the Live Hosting providers (in server) will not give full freedom as working as localhost. There will be some strict modes and policies implemented in server for security reasons.)

Note 2:

The problem exist coz file name differs on Linux and Windows MyFile & myfile can not exist in a same path in Windows, but can on a Linux codeigniter url case sensitive issue

That was exactly my naming convention. It works on the localhost but not on the live server — aronccs, Sep 09 '16 at 11:14

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 09 '16 at 11:18

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First alphabet in controller's name and Model's name should be uppercase. My CI version is 3.1.0

answered Sep 09 '16 at 11:18

Is `ParentPortal` not allowed? Should it be `Parentportal`? – aronccs Sep 09 '16 at 11:19
both are valid as long as first alphabet is uppercase. – Sep 09 '16 at 11:22
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I guess, I know the problem now. I tried `Parentportal` it works even if I type it in the URL as `parentportal` but if I try `ParentPortal`, it doesn't work. So in conclusion, the solution is: only the first letter of the controller must be capitalized – aronccs Sep 09 '16 at 11:25

CodeIgniter Controller Case-Sensitive

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