From dcd8634993f07bee19c644980b5cc49d1be0736b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Paulo Esteves <pjesteves@outlook.pt>
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2023 09:53:28 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Fix: Routing::loadRoutes() in windows do not validate
 correctly $routesFiles

---
 system/Router/RouteCollection.php | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/system/Router/RouteCollection.php b/system/Router/RouteCollection.php
index 4a052699196c..34629920cc1c 100644
--- a/system/Router/RouteCollection.php
+++ b/system/Router/RouteCollection.php
@@ -319,6 +319,10 @@ public function loadRoutes(string $routesFile = APPPATH . 'Config/Routes.php')
             return $this;
         }
 
+        // Normalize the path string in routesFile
+        $realpath   = realpath($routesFile);
+        $routesFile = ($realpath === false) ? $routesFile : $realpath;
+
         // Include the passed in routesFile if it doesn't exist.
         // Only keeping that around for BC purposes for now.
         $routeFiles = $this->routeFiles;