Basic Codeigniter setup on XAMPP isn't working

[eluser]Ckirk[/eluser]
Just a quick check
http://localhost - should run the xampp default directory. If not then this is your problem

also check your hosts file (normally found in "C:\windows\system32\drives\etc\")
make sure it contains these 2 lines and they are not commented (remove any "#" prefix)

Code:

127.0.0.1       localhost
::1             localhost

Also as a rule any new codeigniter site that I make i make an entry in the host file for that site

Code:

127.0.0.1       mynewsite

And so the url to this site is http://mynewsite

In addition to that I place my codeigniter site somewhere other than the htdocs folder.
eg: D:\webdev\mynewsite

Finally in the file c:\xampp\apache\conf\extra\httpd-vhosts.conf
my setup for all my sites (including xampp) will look like this:

Code:

#
# Web site(s) dev environments
#
NameVirtualHost *:80

<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot "C:\xampp\htdocs"
ServerName localhost
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot "D:\webdev\mynewsite"
<Directory "D:\webdev\mynewsite">
    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes ExecCGI
    AllowOverride All
    Require all granted
</Directory>
ServerName mynewsite
</VirtualHost>

any changes you make to the apache conf file require the apache server to be restarted.
Also you should note that all the additional lines for mynewsite are in the conf file purely because I need to set permissions up as it's not in the installed htdocs filder (which has all permissions).
If you want to continue to use htdocs then just set the mynewsite section in the conf file as follows:

Code:

<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot "C:\xampp\htdocs\mynewsite"
ServerName mynewsite
</VirtualHost>

Hope that's of some help to you