Hi I'm facing an issue during a technical challenge for a PHP internship using PHP 8.1 and CodeIgniter 3 (with HMVC structure using MX_Controller).
The company sent me the repository already set up — my only task is to add a login feature. However, when trying to access the login route http://localhost:8000/login or http://localhost:8000/index.php/login, it just loads the error page error_404.php. I keep getting the following error application->logs->log-2025-04-16.php:
ERROR - 2025-04-16 12:51:42 --> 404 Page Not Found: ../modules/acesso/controllers/Login/index Even though the folder structure and files seem to be correct.
File Structure:
application/modules ├── acesso │ ├── controllers │ │ └── Login.php │ ├── index.html │ ├── models │ │ └── Login_model.php │ ├── README.md │ └── views │ └── login_view.php ├── framework │ └── views │ └── errors │ └── cli │ ├── error_404.php │ └── ... ├── test │ ├── controllers │ │ └── Test.php │ └── views │ └── test.php └── welcome ├── controllers │ └── Welcome.php └── views └── welcome_message.php Login.php:
<?php defined('BASEPATH') OR exit('No direct script access allowed'); class Login extends MX_Controller { public function index() { echo 'Página de login'; } } application/config/routes.php:
$route['login'] = 'acesso/login/index'; $route['default_controller'] = 'acesso/login'; $route['404_override'] = ''; $route['translate_uri_dashes'] = FALSE; Relevant .htaccess:
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c> RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?/$1 [L] </IfModule> <IfModule !mod_rewrite.c> ErrorDocument 404 /index.php </IfModule> <IfModule mod_headers.c> Header set Access-Control-Allow-Origin: "*" </IfModule> I've been trying to solve this for 3 days and since it's a repository that was already set up I think it should be working. I’m almost set to start at another company, but I’d really like to figure this out — it’s a question of honor at this point.
From what I can tell, the structure is correct. The Login.php file exists, with the Login class extending MX_Controller and having the index() method.
I’ve checked the routing config, capitalization of filenames, .htaccess rules, mod_rewrite... everything seems right. Still, CodeIgniter returns a 404 when trying to access the login route.
Has anyone faced this kind of issue before or knows what might be missing? Any help would be greatly appreciated
