Stuck at the second hurdle

[eluser]soup7[/eluser]
make sure this file exists...

application/views/pages/home.php

if that "home.php" file does not exist, the 404 is thrown.

here's where they're accessed/viewed:
example.com/index.php/home

or, depends where you have codeigniter installed....

example.com/codeigniter/index.php/home

or

example.com/codeigniter/index.php/about (for your about page)