Tutorial - Static Pages

[eluser]Tybion[/eluser]
I relocated the application and system folders above the root of the web server as suggested in the CodeIgniter Installation Instructions.

As a raw CodeIgniter beginner, I am now running the Static Pages tutorial.

After I had created the first few files, the URL index.php/pages/view kept returning Page Not Found.

After a fair bit of research, I changed the code in pages.php to ..

Code:

if ( ! file_exists(APPPATH.'/views/pages/'.$page.'.php')) {
// Whoops, we don't have a page for that!
show_404();
    }

The tutorial now works.

The code in the tutorial is currently ..

Code:

if ( ! file_exists('application/views/pages/'.$page.'.php')) {

Shouldn't this use the APPPATH definition?
Or is there an even better way to make sure the tutorial works in all cases?