Anchor links do not work

[eluser]variouspixels[/eluser]
can anyone help me? If I go to http://localhost/index.php/site/index or http://localhost/ I can see my homepage as expected. I set the following on relevant page.

Code:

$config['index_page'] = "";
$route['default_controller'] = "site";

.

The problem:
http://localhost/about does not work
My anchor links in header_view.php do not work either.

Code:

<?= anchor('/about', 'About', array('title' => 'About')); ?>

My code:

Code:

class Site extends Controller {

    function index() {
    
    $data = array();
        $data['title'] = 'Home';
        $this->load->view('header_view', $data);
        $data = array();
        $this->load->view('home_view', $data);
        $data = array();
        $this->load->view('footer_view', $data);
    }

function about() {
    
    $data = array();
        $data['title'] = 'About';
        $this->load->view('header_view', $data);
        $data = array();
        $this->load->view('home_view', $data);
        $data = array();
        $this->load->view('footer_view', $data);
    }
}

Hope this make sense. Noob here.

many thanks

[eluser]mddd[/eluser]
If you request /about, that means you are looking for the controller called About. That is not the case, you need the controller called Site and the METHOD called about. So that would be /site/about.

If you want /about to refer to this, you could make a rule that says

Code:

$route['about'] = 'site/about';

What you need to realize, is that the 'default controller' route will only work if there is no controller requested. That means: if the user asks for '/'. THEN the default controller kicks in. But if you give a url, the default controller does not activate.

[eluser]steelaz[/eluser]
Did you setup your .htaccess file (http://ellislab.com/codeigniter/user-guide/general/urls.html)? Are you testing on Linux or Windows system?

[eluser]variouspixels[/eluser]
@mddd I have changed the link to site/about but still no change.
@steelaz I am using MAMP locally atm. I have not added a .htaccess file. I will try find the correct rule to fix my problem.

thanks

[eluser]flaky[/eluser]

Code:

http://localhost/about

doesn't work because there is no controller with the name about, instead use

Code:

http://localhost/index.php/site/about

same for the anchor link

Code:

<?= anchor('site/about', 'About', array('title' => 'About')); ?>

[eluser]Ivar89[/eluser]
If you don't have a htaccess file you need index.php
so; http://localhost/index.php/about

[eluser]variouspixels[/eluser]
@ivar89 links are working fine now I have set

Code:

$config['index_page'] = "index.php";

.

I will need to remove the index.php/site from the url though. I guess I use .htaccess instead of changing any codeigniter parameters.

[eluser]variouspixels[/eluser]
Removed index.php succesfully by adding relevant htaccess file.

Enabled http://localhost/about and http://localhost/contacts pages to work correctly by following advice from mddd.

However, my CSS files no longer work and I cannot figure out why. Any ideas?

[eluser]steelaz[/eluser]
It's possible that you configured .htaccess file incorrectly. Can you open your css file by entering url in a browser?

[eluser]variouspixels[/eluser]
No I cannot. 404

.htaccess

Code:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php|images|robots\.txt)
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php/$1 [L]