Routing issue from welcome message

[eluser]William Rouse[/eluser]
And today’s problem is…
“My application can’t find a controller.”
I modified the welcome view so it now has a menu with a series of links. I am running in netbeans and I can launch the application and the welcome view comes up modified.
The welcome page, “welcome_message” calls a header file where the links are like this.

Code:

<?php $this->load->view('inc/header') ?>

So, from this header file located in “views/inc“ I want to call a controller named posts located in the controller directory. I thought the link should look like this:

Code:

<a href="/posts/">Posts</a> or <a href="posts/">Posts</a>

The only significant routing change I made was in the config.php:

Code:

$config['base_url'] = "http://localhost/CodeIgniter/CIpagination/";

Lastly when the welcome_message comes up in the browser the address bar has what I accept.

Code:

http://localhost/CodeIgniter/CIpagination/index.php

And when I click on the link to go to post I see this in the header and get the not found URL message.

Code:

http://localhost/posts/

PS I read the routing section in the user guide.