How to display site homepage using http://localhost/ci instead of http://localhost/ci/welcome

[eluser]developer86[/eluser]
[quote author="Karman de Lange" date="1387802968"]Is your web server setup to run index.php as default document?

see : http://stackoverflow.com/questions/23844...by-default[/quote]

Hi Karman, thank you for your post.

index.php was not setup as the default document in my web server (Apache 2.4.7).
Instead, index.html was setup in the server configuration file httpd.conf by default.
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After adding index.php to my .htaccess file, i successfully launched my home page at http://localhost/ci.
The updated .htaccess file now contains the following line at the top and the rest of its contents are the same;

Code:

DirectoryIndex index.php

I really appreciate your support and direction. Everything is working according to my expectations !