CodeIgniter incorrect system path on private server

Question

codeigniter project when uploaded to server gives me the following error.

Your system folder path does not appear to be set correctly. Please open t

Answer 1

In my case, I didn't go to mess with .htaccess, actually before going to do that, as it's suggested in the above post, I tried its later part, which is changing the

$config['index_page'] = 'index.php';

To the following

$config['index_page'] = '';

And it simply worked for me!

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Edit to add some more information ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

My CodeIgniter Directory structure:

htdocs /
       |_ CI /
             |_ OnlineStoreApp /
                               |_ online_store_ci  // This is the CodeIgniter folder
                               |_ public_html /
                                              |_ css
                                              |_ js
                                              |_ fonts
                                              |_ .htaccess // see bellow for more details
                                              |_ index.php // see bellow for more details

And my .htaccess file contains the following:

DirectoryIndex index.php
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php|images|css|js|robots\.txt|favicon\.ico)
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ ./index.php?/$1 [L,QSA]

My index.php file is the same one provided by CodeIgniter root folder, but I have to change two lines in it as I place it inside the public_html directory instead of it's original place:

Note: look for the following two lines within the index.php,
- $system_path
- $application_folder
They have been edited, to point the locations, where system directory and application directory reside in.

Hope this might help somebody out there!

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