Error at Codeigniter “No Input File Specified”

January 26, 2012 11:09 am / 17 Comments / eftakhairul

Sometimes life become hell for some unexpected errors. Well, this is not unexpected error, it can be occurred if you run your application at PHP5 as CGI mode on Apache 2.2. You may face it if you run your application at shared hosting.

Last week, I ran into this problem when I used Codeigniter for rapid development in one of my client’s applications. The web application worked very well in development environment but it generated the error “No Input File Specified” when I uploaded it shared hosting. By default, the hosting company set cgi.fix_pathinfo to 1. So, Apache doesn’t support “PATH_INFO” inside Codeigniter. There are two ways to solve it. Before solving the problem, make sure that you have following configurations at /application/config/config.php in Codeignitet.

$config['index_page'] = “”;
$config['uri_protocol'] = “AUTO“;

Now, either you can customize php.ini at root directory or change the .htaccess.

Make your .htaccess like follwoing..

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/system.*
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?/$1 [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.+)$ index.php?/$1 [L]

OR customize the php.ini by adding the following line:

cgi.fix_pathinfo = 0;

Happy Hacking

Posted in: Framework, PHP / Tagged: apache, codeigniter, framework, php5

17 Thoughts on “Error at Codeigniter “No Input File Specified””

Andy on February 19, 2012 at 6:52 pm said:

This helped me out when I installed Gallery CMS onto my Go Daddy hosting. Many thanks for the help,

Andy

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- Andy on February 19, 2012 at 7:02 pm said:
  
  The only problem I noticed with using this .htaccess approach is that CI’s ‘default controller’ setting (in routes.php) no longer seems to be taking effect, so that I always have to specify the controller name.
  
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  - eftakhairul on February 19, 2012 at 7:08 pm said:
    
    Yeah, you will have to do that. .
    
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- eftakhairul on February 19, 2012 at 7:07 pm said:
  
  You welcome
  
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Abhisek on April 25, 2012 at 11:18 am said:

Had the same problem. Your htaccess hack saved me a lot of trouble. Thanks!

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- eftakhairul on May 1, 2012 at 9:38 am said:
  
  thanks for your comment.
  
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- eftakhairul on May 5, 2012 at 9:30 am said:
  
  Thanks for your comment. Keep in touch for more tech posts.
  
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Xin Zhang on July 10, 2012 at 12:13 pm said:

I am really thankful for this post. I struggled for a long time with codeIgniter and godaddy. This helped me out

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- eftakhairul on July 10, 2012 at 12:25 pm said:
  
  Thanks Zhang,
  keep in touch in my blog for more interesting posts.
  
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Umapathy on August 2, 2012 at 11:00 am said:

Solved my problem in a single google search. Proves you have helped a lot of them to solve this issue.

thanks

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- eftakhairul on August 2, 2012 at 11:29 am said:
  
  thanks for your commnet.
  
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Ray Mcdonald on October 6, 2012 at 5:09 pm said:

That is good information, it is useful to me thanks.

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- eftakhairul on October 6, 2012 at 8:52 pm said:
  
  Thanks …
  
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naphets on January 24, 2013 at 3:26 am said:

I have tried the above and a Billion other things… But between all that & deleteing the HTACCESS file… you cant see a smdge of difference ;(

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Anu on April 22, 2013 at 5:59 pm said:

Most useful post.
Perfect answer.
Thanks

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- eftakhairul on April 22, 2013 at 7:02 pm said:
  
  Thanks for your feedback. Keep in touch for more posts.
  
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