Codeigniter issues with paths in localhost (XAMPP)

Question

The index page (aka homepage.php) in my code igniter install is working fine no matter what.

The problem lies with using subdirectories to store other pages, current

Answer 1

please create .htaccess file in project folder and write:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

# Rewrite all other URLs to index.php/URL
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?url=$1 [PT,L] 

</IfModule>
<IfModule !mod_rewrite.c>
 ErrorDocument 404 index.php
</IfModule>

You don't need to define in base_url in config file:

$config['base_url'] = ''; // blank it.

Answer 2

Figured out what I was doing wrong:

I needed to be accessing : http://localhost/VAw_CI/**index.php**/pages/aboutus which is really strange because my default CI page is set to $config['index_page'] = 'homepage';

Hope this helps someone, sometime :)