CodeIgniter routes: I keep getting a 404 - php

Question

I have a application/controller/login.php file containing the following
class Login extends Controller {
function Login()
{
parent::Controller();
}
function index()
{
$this->mysmarty->assign('title', 'Login');
$this->mysmarty->assign('site_media', $this->config->item('site_media'));
$this->mysmarty->display('smarty.tpl');
}
}
My routes definition looks like the following:
$route['default_controller'] = "welcome";
$route['login'] = 'login';
$route['scaffolding_trigger'] = "";
The problem is that I keep getting a 404 when I try to access http://localhost/myapp/login. What did I do wrong? I've checked CI routes docs and cannot spot anything.

Answer 1

There shouldn't be anything wrong with this - does it work without the route?
Also, have you set the .htaccess properly (i.e. does http://localhost/myapp/index.php/login work instead)

Answer 2

Another point to keep in mind, if you have have "enable_query_strings" set to true and aren't using the .htaccess mod_rewrite rules:
In config/config.php:
$config['enable_query_strings'] = TRUE;
$config['controller_trigger'] = 'c';
$config['function_trigger'] = 'm';
$config['directory_trigger'] = 'd';
The URL to route your request properly would look like this:
http://localhost/myapp/index.php?c=login

Answer 3

If you have not removed your index.php from your app using the .htaccess file, well thats another ball game on its own. But what you can do is this:
Set a default controller that's not the welcome file and if you want the welcome file to be your default use the link this way
http://localhost/myapp/index.php/login
Remember this way only works when the index.php file has not been removed using the .htaccess file.
Also open the apllication/config/config.php and use this code for the baseurl
$config['base_url'] = 'http://localhost/myapp';
That should always do the trick.