Codeigniter displays file structure on localhost

Question

I have a setup of Codeigniter in place with a controller called vendors. I also have a folder called vendors in the root directory of the project.

The problem is whenever I try calling www.example.com/vendors Codeigniter routes to the folder called vendors in the root directory and displays the file structure in the browser.

How can I fix this other than renaming either the controller or the folder.

Shouldn't Codeigniter be looking for a controller only under the controllers folder?

quote from OP's comment :

this happens on localhost (apache 2.4.27 and php 7.1.9 ), works fine on the production server.

Answer 1

After checking .htaccess and similar I found 2 solutions to hide a folder on localhost , but have it's containing files (eg images) accessible through a web-page.

the first is to add to your root .htacess file:

Options -Indexes

so it would look like this:

# DON'T FORGET TO CHANGE $config['index_page'] = '';
RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php|assets|photos|videos|vendors|robots\.txt|favicon\.ico) 
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php/$1 [L] 
Options -Indexes

the second is to add an empty index.html file into that (vendors) folder.

The file structure is now hidden!

edit: actually, you see that codigniter folders have index.html files which look like this:

<html>
<head>
    <title>403 Forbidden</title>
</head>
<body>

<p>Directory access is forbidden.</p>

</body>
</html>

Codeigniter displays file structure on localhost

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solution1
0 2017-11-06 20:56:05

Codeigniter displays file structure on localhost

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1 answers

solution1 0 2017-11-06 20:56:05

solution1
0 2017-11-06 20:56:05