News article pages 404

[eluser]stuartr[/eluser]
With reference to the issue with spaces in the slug name, I also hit this when creating the initial articles as the tutorial wasn't clear that the slug would be used to create the URL and hence would be sensitive to certain characters such as a space or an apostrophe.

That being said, when you reach the section on creating the news article the set_news function created in the model takes care of this with the assistance of the URL helper.

Code:

$slug = url_title($this->input->post('title'), 'dash', TRUE);

The problem I am trying to get my head around at the moment is the link to the news article, assuming I end the URL without a trailing slash the link is built as ci_test/index.php/news/slug1, whereas if I call the page with a trailing slash I get ci_test/index.php/news/news/slug1.

e.g.
http://ci_test/index.php/news (no trailing slash) builds links as http://ci_test/index.php/news/slug1
while
http://ci_test/index.php/news/ builds links as http://ci_test/index.php/news/news/slug1

While I entirely understand the logic of what is happening with the relative URL, I am new to working with segmented URLs and CI, and am therefore still trying to get my head around the best approach to managing this. I can get it to work with an additional route

Code:

$route['news/news/(:any)'] = 'news/view/$1';

but that seems messy so it seems as if I am still missing something at the moment.