Codeigniter 2.0: How to Download & Install

[Update 07/18/2015]

The long awaited, and much anticipated Codeigniter 3.0 has officially been released. The Codeigniter project is now under new management, BCIT, and they are aiming to re-ignite the project and keep it competitive with other frameworks.  If you are interested to see a list of every change between Codeigniter 2.0 vs 3.0, view the Change Log.

Codeigniter 2.0, has not yet been officially released by Ellis Labs, but for a couple of months now, a stable version has been available to download. Follow these simple steps in order to do so!

1. Visit the Codeigniter bitbucket (source code repository) site at https://bitbucket.org/ellislab/codeigniter/.
2. Hover over the icon and choose .zip
3. You will now be prompted by your browser to save the file onto your system.
4. Navigate to this file and use an Unzip utility to extract these files into a path accessible by your web server. (Note: If your webserver exists on a different machine, upload the unzipped files via FTP to your web host)
5. Open your browser and type in the URL to the Codeigniter path!