News tutorial help needed

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[quote author="CroNiX" date="1349892673"]Sorry, I don't usually follow links. If it's not all in one easy location I generally skip it.
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Yeah... I hear ya.

[quote author="CroNiX" date="1349892673"]
Look at the bottom of index.php where it defines CI's paths. APPPATH is dynamically generated and it won't matter where the /application folder is located (it's best to keep /application and /system out of root for security). If you hardcode the application path (and it's a relative path - like it is in the tutorial) and move your /application dir outside of root, it will break unless you use the predefined constants. It's just best to use the constants so you don't have anything to update (except index.php) if your application moves locations.[/quote]
makes sense.

[quote author="CroNiX" date="1349892673"]

Based on that 404 page (I don't see 500 error) and the message it supplies, and the fact you get it if you also go to the home controller: http://loadersequence.com/ci/index.php
[/quote] mmmm weird im not sure we're looking at the same thing. me clicking that link works just fine it shows:

CodeIgniter 2 Tutorial

Pages is currently acting as a category view like wordpress does. The controller for pages is what calls most of it, then the view for individual pages can be set as well. but the controller already calls a lot of things for it so there is no reason to be redundant. © 2011

Chrome with for the news section returns :

Server error
The website encountered an error while retrieving http://loadersequence.com/ci/index.php/news. It may be down for maintenance or configured incorrectly.
Here are some suggestions:
Reload this webpage later.
HTTP Error 500 (Internal Server Error): An unexpected condition was encountered while the server was attempting to fulfill the request.

While firefox turns up a blank page.

I'd say it's your hosting doing this and nothing to do with CI. Are you sure your host is properly set up? Does it work from localhost?

my host is a small hosting co. and so I dont enough have cpanel. Its basically just phpmyadmin and ftp access. its $2.50 a mo though so i dont mind too much.

Localhost i dont have a test xamp server setup, just because my laptop is on its last 2gb.... I'm trying to hold out for black friday for more storage

Based on that 404 page (I don’t see 500 error) and the message it supplies, and the fact you get it if you also go to the home controller: http://loadersequence.com/ci/index.php and also the root of your site: http://loadersequence.com

I was trying to make the /ci/ the root that I was working. I use loadersequence as a testing ground for a lot of different projects.