Redirect issue on new local project

For local development it is advised to use php built in web server. See http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/instal...nning.html

On a server everything is served from the public folder and changed using 'mod_rewrite' (on an apache webserver). This requires setting the documentroot in apache to '<location>/ejemplo-ci/public/' (where location is wherever ejemplo-ci is located).

My guess is that your XAMPP installation might not have mod-rewrite on or have the DocumentRoot set up.