Installing secure CodeIgniter with Sparks

Question

Installing Sparks assumes that you are abiding by the default CodeIgniter installation pattern; extracting the application, system, and user guide folders, along with with a index.php and a license file into your web root.

However, many of us pull the application and system folders out of the web root for security reasons and re-route the $system_path and $application_folder variables in the main index.php file.

This separation tends to break Spark installs. In particular, the simple example-spark used in the getsparks installation instructions.

Getting an error:

An Error Was Encountered Cannot find spark path at sparks/example-spark/1.0.0/

I maintain the following directory structure:

• CISYS
  • V202
  • V200
• project1_application
• project2_application
• project3_application
• www (public html)
  • project1
    • css
    • js
    • images
    • etc
  • project2
    • etc

What must I reroute to achieve both security + sparks? Open to suggestions of any sort. How do you set up your installation?

Answer 1

To answer my own question: The solution was in the MY_Loader.php file. By modifying the SPARKPATH variable on line 43, one can reroute the location of all sparks! Cheers!