Codeigniter Pagination with AJAX JQuery on XAMPP

Hello to all of you as premise I say I'm very basic with Codeigniter

hopefully some Ci expert could hint what is wrong with this

this is Ci 3.1.10

I suspect my issue is matter of a wrong configuration in some file


This Codeigniter pagination with ajax is running localhost on xampp

Here it is the code of this  really simple experiment,
https://itsolutionstuff.com/post/codeign...ample.html

mean a short tutorial
just matter of db creation
one controller using the codeigniter pagination library
and one view with jquery ajax at bottom


Well

the codeigniter folder has been renamed ci-pag
it is in

Code:

http://localhost/ci-pag

and pointing to there I have the standard welcome controller with CI welcome message

I have created the test db as in the tutorial using the provided query and filled in some data

briefly copied and pasted the provided controller and view with obviously the same names

configured codeigniter as ususal (for my xampp experiments) mean
- created .htaccess
- added the rewrite stuff for index.php removal
- changed the config.php to remove the index.php and set the base path to http://localhost/ci-pag/

THE ISSUE
when I point to

Code:

http://localhost/ci-pag/post

it does show only the header of the page but for the rest nothing 

you can see the screenshot here No table just header


also

can you kindly hint how to approach some debug in a case such the current one? Thank you for this too if any

Thank you
Cor