title: Getting Codeigniter to work on localhost with xampp
body: <p>I have Netbeans, Codeigniter, and xampp setup on a Windows 7 machine and I am simply trying to call up a simple object to display hello world.</p>
  
  <p>I keep getting the Object not found error after exhausting many tutorials.  When I run my script it uses the following url</p>
  
  <pre><code>http://localhost/project1/CodeIgniter_2.1.0/application/controllers/hello.php
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>So xampp is working fine when I call up localhost/xampp from my browser although im not sure what else needs to be configured.</p>
  
  <p>I've tried many different base urls although currently my <code>config.php</code> has it set as follows <code>$config['base_url'] = '';</code></p>
  
  <p>I'm a newbie just trying to get things setup so I can start working on projects but can't get past this for days.</p>