Problems with altervista

Make sure the model's class and filename both start with an uppercase letter: "Home_model". You can use all lowercase when calling the loader and when referencing it via $this->home_model, but the loader is going to look for Home_model.php with a class named Home_model, and some filesystems (like those used in Windows) are case-insensitive, but the filesystems on most servers are not.

If that's not the problem, make sure your APPPATH is set correctly, since APPPATH . 'models/' is where it's most likely to be looking for your model.

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