Newbie CI question

[eluser]theprodigy[/eluser]
You are correct. He did keep index.php in the base_url, but I think it was a mistake and not meant. He is probably used to using htaccess to remove index.php out of the url, and therefore didn't think about having to remove it from a copy/paste url. If you notice he did make a comment about the index_page config setting, and removing it if you use htaccess.

There were a couple people in the comments that I recognize from the forums here, and I'm surprised that they either didn't catch it, or didn't mention it if they did catch it.

Either way, do NOT put index.php in the base_url config setting. I couldn't think of any reasons before, but as cahva mentioned, it will throw off a good number of the url helper functions and html helper functions (like site_url, base_url, anchor, img, etc)