Getting Codeigniter to work on localhost with xampp

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I have Netbeans, Codeigniter, and xampp setup on a Windows 7 machine and I am simply trying to call up a simple object to display hello world. I keep getting the Object not found error after exhausting many tutorials. When I run my script it uses the following url ``` http://localhost/project1/CodeIgniter_2.1.0/application/controllers/hello.php ``` So xampp is working fine when I call up localhost/xampp from my browser although im not sure what else needs to be configured. I've tried many different base urls although currently my `config.php` has it set as follows `$config['base_url'] = '';` I'm a newbie just trying to get things setup so I can start working on projects but can't get past this for days.

Accepted Answer

That's not how CodeIgniter URLs work. It should be: ``` http://path/to/codeigniter/index.php/// ``` So, in your case, it should be: ``` http://localhost/project1/CodeIgniter_2.1.0/index.php/hello ``` `$config['base_url']` should be set to the `index.php`, so it should be: ``` $config['base_url'] = 'http://localhost/project1/CodeIgniter_2.1.0/index.php'; ``` DOCS: http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/general/urls.html

Getting Codeigniter to work on localhost with xampp

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