Access Forbidden To view image file located in Codeigniter view foldr

Question

I have the following structure,

root folder
--- application
    --admin
        --controllers
        --models
        --views
           --newsletter
             --images
             --screenshot.png
             --index.php
--- system
---
---
---

as u can see there is a png file inside application/admin/views/newsletter/

when i am using this img src

application/admin/views/newsletter/screenshot.png" />

i see the image as broken link

but when i paste the address of the image in the addess bar of the browser, it says

"Permission Denied"

how can i make the image be seen, without changing the file structure..

Answer 1

That's because any direct access to application folder is blocked by Deny from all rule in application/.htaccess file (by default). If you remove that, it would work.

But, it's better to put all public files out of application folder. You could create a folder like public or assets beside index.php file and put all public files inside that.

And if you're using rewrite rules to remove /index.php/ from URLs, consider adding a condition (as the example below) if you don't want them to be treated by RewriteRule:

RewriteCond $1 !^(index.php|robots.txt|favicon.ico|public)
                           # Add your files/folders --^

Then the src would be something like: base_url().'public/newsletter/screenshot.png'.