title: codeigniter application view folder location issue in fresh application
body: <p><code>Your view folder path does not appear to be set correctly. Please open the following file and correct this: index.php</code> i'm getting this error, i don't know what is wrong, i downloaded the rc3(release candidate 3) from the official website, unzipped it, added asset folder and helper and when i ran the application, i got the error <code>Your view folder path does not appear to be set correctly. Please open the following file and correct this: index.php</code>, this is my <code>index.php</code> file code and image shows the folder structure</p>
  
  <pre><code>// index.php code
  &lt;?php
  /**
   * CodeIgniter
   *
   * An open source application development framework for PHP
   *
   * This content is released under the MIT License (MIT)
   *
   * Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology
   *
   * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
   * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
   * in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
   * to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
   * copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
   * furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
   *
   * The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in
   * all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
   *
   * THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
   * IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
   * FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
   * AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
   * LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
   * OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN
   * THE SOFTWARE.
   *
   * @package CodeIgniter
   * @author  EllisLab Dev Team
   * @copyright   Copyright (c) 2008 - 2014, EllisLab, Inc. (http://ellislab.com/)
   * @copyright   Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015, British Columbia Institute of Technology (http://bcit.ca/)
   * @license http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT  MIT License
   * @link    http://codeigniter.com
   * @since   Version 1.0.0
   * @filesource
   */
  
  /*
   *---------------------------------------------------------------
   * APPLICATION ENVIRONMENT
   *---------------------------------------------------------------
   *
   * You can load different configurations depending on your
   * current environment. Setting the environment also influences
   * things like logging and error reporting.
   *
   * This can be set to anything, but default usage is:
   *
   *     development
   *     testing
   *     production
   *
   * NOTE: If you change these, also change the error_reporting() code below
   */
      define('ENVIRONMENT', isset($_SERVER\['CI_ENV'\]) ? $_SERVER\['CI_ENV'\] : 'development');
  
  /*
   *---------------------------------------------------------------
   * ERROR REPORTING
   *---------------------------------------------------------------
   *
   * Different environments will require different levels of error reporting.
   * By default development will show errors but testing and live will hide them.
   */
  switch (ENVIRONMENT)
  {
      case 'development':
          error_reporting(-1);
          ini_set('display_errors', 1);
      break;
  
      case 'testing':
      case 'production':
          ini_set('display_errors', 0);
          if (version_compare(PHP_VERSION, '5.3', '&gt;='))
          {
              error_reporting(E_ALL &amp; ~E_NOTICE &amp; ~E_DEPRECATED &amp; ~E_STRICT &amp; ~E_USER_NOTICE &amp; ~E_USER_DEPRECATED);
          }
          else
          {
              error_reporting(E_ALL &amp; ~E_NOTICE &amp; ~E_STRICT &amp; ~E_USER_NOTICE);
          }
      break;
  
      default:
          header('HTTP/1.1 503 Service Unavailable.', TRUE, 503);
          echo 'The application environment is not set correctly.';
          exit(1); // EXIT_ERROR
  }
  
  /*
   *---------------------------------------------------------------
   * SYSTEM FOLDER NAME
   *---------------------------------------------------------------
   *
   * This variable must contain the name of your "system" folder.
   * Include the path if the folder is not in the same directory
   * as this file.
   */
      $system_path = 'system';
  
  /*
   *---------------------------------------------------------------
   * APPLICATION FOLDER NAME
   *---------------------------------------------------------------
   *
   * If you want this front controller to use a different "application"
   * folder than the default one you can set its name here. The folder
   * can also be renamed or relocated anywhere on your server. If
   * you do, use a full server path. For more info please see the user guide:
   * http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/general/managing_apps.html
   *
   * NO TRAILING SLASH!
   */
      $application_folder = 'application';
  
  /*
   *---------------------------------------------------------------
   * VIEW FOLDER NAME
   *---------------------------------------------------------------
   *
   * If you want to move the view folder out of the application
   * folder set the path to the folder here. The folder can be renamed
   * and relocated anywhere on your server. If blank, it will default
   * to the standard location inside your application folder. If you
   * do move this, use the full server path to this folder.
   *
   * NO TRAILING SLASH!
   */
      $view_folder = '';
  
  
  /*
   * --------------------------------------------------------------------
   * DEFAULT CONTROLLER
   * --------------------------------------------------------------------
   *
   * Normally you will set your default controller in the routes.php file.
   * You can, however, force a custom routing by hard-coding a
   * specific controller class/function here. For most applications, you
   * WILL NOT set your routing here, but it's an option for those
   * special instances where you might want to override the standard
   * routing in a specific front controller that shares a common CI installation.
   *
   * IMPORTANT: If you set the routing here, NO OTHER controller will be
   * callable. In essence, this preference limits your application to ONE
   * specific controller. Leave the function name blank if you need
   * to call functions dynamically via the URI.
   *
   * Un-comment the $routing array below to use this feature
   */
      // The directory name, relative to the "controllers" folder.  Leave blank
      // if your controller is not in a sub-folder within the "controllers" folder
      // $routing\['directory'\] = '';
  
      // The controller class file name.  Example:  mycontroller
      // $routing\['controller'\] = '';
  
      // The controller function you wish to be called.
      // $routing\['function'\]   = '';
  
  
  /*
   * -------------------------------------------------------------------
   *  CUSTOM CONFIG VALUES
   * -------------------------------------------------------------------
   *
   * The $assign_to_config array below will be passed dynamically to the
   * config class when initialized. This allows you to set custom config
   * items or override any default config values found in the config.php file.
   * This can be handy as it permits you to share one application between
   * multiple front controller files, with each file containing different
   * config values.
   *
   * Un-comment the $assign_to_config array below to use this feature
   */
      // $assign_to_config\['name_of_config_item'\] = 'value of config item';
  
  
  
  // --------------------------------------------------------------------
  // END OF USER CONFIGURABLE SETTINGS.  DO NOT EDIT BELOW THIS LINE
  // --------------------------------------------------------------------
  
  /*
   * ---------------------------------------------------------------
   *  Resolve the system path for increased reliability
   * ---------------------------------------------------------------
   */
  
      // Set the current directory correctly for CLI requests
      if (defined('STDIN'))
      {
          chdir(dirname(__FILE__));
      }
  
      if (($_temp = realpath($system_path)) !== FALSE)
      {
          $system_path = $_temp.'/';
      }
      else
      {
          // Ensure there's a trailing slash
          $system_path = rtrim($system_path, '/').'/';
      }
  
      // Is the system path correct?
      if ( ! is_dir($system_path))
      {
          header('HTTP/1.1 503 Service Unavailable.', TRUE, 503);
          echo 'Your system folder path does not appear to be set correctly. Please open the following file and correct this: '.pathinfo(__FILE__, PATHINFO_BASENAME);
          exit(3); // EXIT_CONFIG
      }
  
  /*
   * -------------------------------------------------------------------
   *  Now that we know the path, set the main path constants
   * -------------------------------------------------------------------
   */
      // The name of THIS file
      define('SELF', pathinfo(__FILE__, PATHINFO_BASENAME));
  
      // Path to the system folder
      define('BASEPATH', str_replace('\\', '/', $system_path));
  
      // Path to the front controller (this file)
      define('FCPATH', dirname(__FILE__).'/');
  
      // Name of the "system folder"
      define('SYSDIR', trim(strrchr(trim(BASEPATH, '/'), '/'), '/'));
  
      // The path to the "application" folder
      if (is_dir($application_folder))
      {
          if (($_temp = realpath($application_folder)) !== FALSE)
          {
              $application_folder = $_temp;
          }
  
          define('APPPATH', $application_folder.DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR);
      }
      else
      {
          if ( ! is_dir(BASEPATH.$application_folder.DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR))
          {
              header('HTTP/1.1 503 Service Unavailable.', TRUE, 503);
              echo 'Your application folder path does not appear to be set correctly. Please open the following file and correct this: '.SELF;
              exit(3); // EXIT_CONFIG
          }
  
          define('APPPATH', BASEPATH.$application_folder.DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR);
      }
  
      // The path to the "views" folder
      if ( ! is_dir($view_folder))
      {
          if ( ! empty($view_folder) &amp;&amp; is_dir(APPPATH.$view_folder.DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR))
          {
              $view_folder = APPPATH.$view_folder;
          }
          elseif ( ! is_dir(APPPATH.'views'.DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR))
          {
              header('HTTP/1.1 503 Service Unavailable.', TRUE, 503);
              echo 'Your view folder path does not appear to be set correctly. Please open the following file and correct this: '.SELF;
              exit(3); // EXIT_CONFIG
          }
          else
          {
              $view_folder = APPPATH.'views';
          }
      }
  
      if (($_temp = realpath($view_folder)) !== FALSE)
      {
          $view_folder = $_temp.DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR;
      }
      else
      {
          $view_folder = rtrim($view_folder, '/\\').DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR;
      }
  
      define('VIEWPATH', $view_folder);
  
  /*
   * --------------------------------------------------------------------
   * LOAD THE BOOTSTRAP FILE
   * --------------------------------------------------------------------
   *
   * And away we go...
   */
  require_once BASEPATH.'core/CodeIgniter.php';
  </code></pre>
  
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