Working with paths and URIs

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Hi there,

I'm new to CI, and want to set up my apps so that they behave thusly:

example.com/

should load up controller "Home" with function "index" (I've got this working)

and example.com/nextcontroller

should load up controller "nextcontroller" with the function "index". This won't work for me and shows up as a 500 error. To access that controller/function, instead I need to go to:

example.com/index.php/nextcontroller.

How can I make the routes behave how I've described?

Thanks any help!