Trouble with basic navigation.

[eluser]duartix[/eluser]
I'm new to CI and besides other affairs, I'm having a few difficulties with basic navigation...

My default controller is like this:

applications/controllers/home.php

Code:

<?php
class Home extends CI_Controller {

    public function index() {
        $this->load->view('logintest');
    }
    
    public function login() {
        echo "hello!";
    }
}

the view is the following:

applications/views/login.php

Code:

\\<form method="post" action="home/login">
\\    <p>User:
\\        &lt;input type="text" id="username" name="username" class="login_input"&gt;
\\    </p>
\\    <p>&lt;input class ="login_button" type="submit" name="submit" id="login_button" value ="login"
\\    &lt;/p>
\\&lt;/form&gt;

The action gets cut in this post but it's: action="home/login"

My routes configuration is this:

Code:

$route['default_controller'] = 'home';

When I click the login button the browser navigates to http://localhost/glup2/home/login but instead of invoking the login method from the home controller it goes to a 404 error page instead.

What am I missing ?

Thanks in advance.

[eluser]InsiteFX[/eluser]
Place php comment tags in front of the code then it will show all of it. ( // )

Code:

//  <form name="input" action="home/login" method="post">
//       Username: <input type="text" id="username" name="username" class="login_input" >
//       <input class="login_button" type="submit" name="submit" id="login_button" value="Submit">
//   </form>

And now it doe's not work any more...
Had to paste it in again for it to work.

[eluser]Otemu[/eluser]
What happens when you navigate directly using this url http://localhost/glup2/index.php/home/login if you can get to the page like this then you need to use ht.access to remove the index.php or change you form action to url above

[eluser]InsiteFX[/eluser]
Or use the CodeIgniter form_helper

[eluser]Unknown[/eluser]
Your form action should be "index.php/home/login". You can also use the CI built in function to open form:
form_open(). You will not need to add index.php if you use form_open() method.
<?php
$this->load->helper('form'); //must load the form_helper before use
echo form_open('welcome/login'); //will produce<form acti method="post" accept-charset="utf-8">

//to close form
form_close();
//more about form helper here
?>

[eluser]duartix[/eluser]
Thank you all once again.
All solutions proved useful and enlightening.