Codeigniter URLs showing 404

Question

I have a simple web hosting platform . I am hosting a Codeigniter application on /var/www/html meaning this is the file structure :

html 
|-application
|---controllers
|---models
|---views
|---config
|-public
|-system
|-index.php
|-.htacess

My .htaccess file looks like this :

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/$1 [L]
</IfModule>

In my config.php file I have default root view controller as :

$config['base_url']     = 'http://www.example.com/';

While in my routes.php file , I have

$route['default_controller'] = "home"

So, naturally when I open www.mysite.com in my browser I get home/index automatically. But when I try any other URL like

www.example.com/home
www.example.com/home/index
www.example.com/admin

I get a 404 error. This is also noticeable that this folder was working perfectly on my local machine and one other remote server that I tried.

To be more precise, when I try www.example.com/home I get this error

Not Found
The requested URL /home was not found on this server.

EDIT

My home controller looks like this .

class Home extends CI_Controller{

    public function __construct() {
        parent::__construct();
    }

    public function index(){
        $this->load->view('home_view');
   }

    public function someFunction(){
       echo 'In some function';
    }

}

EDIT

I dont if that helps but adding index.php to the URLs seems to open up the pages as expected. So

www.example.com/controller/function (DOES NOT WORK)
www.example.com/index.php/controller/function (WORKS)

Any help please?

Answer 1

You need to specify the action for different urls in the route file. Like for site.com/search, add this before $route['default_controller'] = "home",

$route['search'] = "home/search"

What this means is, you will create a function search in your home controller which will load the view files for specified url.