Codeigniter Controller 404 & routing issues

Question

so I've had experience building codeigniter applications in the past so I'm slightly familiar with the framework

however anytime prior I've worked directly from the root (http://domain.com/)

I'm currently trying to develop & deploy an application which will be hosted in subfolders (http://domain.com/foo/bar)

I have a decent grasp on routing but I'm not sure what's going on. going to http://domain.com/foo/bar loads without issue, but anytime I try to add a new route such as http://domain.com/foo/bar/myController -- I get a 404. The server is essentially trying to load http://domain.com/foo/bar/myController/index.php versus using the framework controller--

is this some kind of server configuration or setting? do I have to do something with htaccess? (all I have had to do in the past is scrub index.php out of the URL)

for the record the issue is not that the controller is broken/missing/named improperly, if I set the default controller to myController the page will load without issue.

I'm a little confused and looking for any kind of advice. thanks in advance.

Answer 1

It seems like you need to set base_url (application/config/config.php):

$config['base_url'] = 'http://domain.com/foo/bar';