Existing CodeIgniter application folder in new CodeIgniter installation

Question

A project I am an app developer on has recently lost its web service developer, this has left me holding the bag with very little knowledge of what I am doing. I was given a repo with the 'application' folder from the CodeIgniter project and nothing else. I downloaded a new copy of CI, installed on server and began copying the existing stuff into the new install, I did this slowly so I could see what would inevitably break.

And break something has, when I direct to the folder that the install is in i.e www.example.com/dashboard CI does its thing and redirects me to the auth controller and login function and then promptly throws a 404.

My thinking is that the previous developer enabled one of the CI features that cleans up URLs, however, as I said my experience is extremely limited. I have checked the application/config folders as thoroughly as I can, set the base_url, set the database values but I am throughly out of ideas.

Any thoughts or suggestions would be a God send as this project is scheduled to close very soon.

Answer 1

run that file with this url

www.example.com/index.php/dashboard