Question

In my routes.php I have :

$route['default_controller'] = "bitcoin";

and in my config.php I have:

$config['base_url'] = 'http://localhost/bitcoin/';

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

here is my controller: http://www.pastie.org/2253458

When I try to go to the following, I get a 404 not found (but the 404 template looks different):

http://localhost/bitcoin/edit/
http://localhost/bitcoin/index.php/edit

Answer 1

You didn’t say if you’ve removed or not your index with .htaccess, but if you didn’t, did you try using: http://localhost/index.php/bitcoin ?

Or better, since it’s your default controller, just http://localhost ?
What you’re doing is quite strange, I can’t understand if you’re in a subfolder called bitcoin (in case, it should be http://localhost/bitcoin/ to call the default controller, which is also called bitcoin but doesn’t need to be indicated in your URL).
If you’re in root, You should rewrite your urls as: http://localhost/index.php/bitcoin/edit to call the edit() method of your default controller

Edit:

If you’re in a subfolder called bitcoin, your base url, with default controller, should be:
http://localhost/bitcoin/ (which is the same as http://localhost/bitcoin/index.php/bitcoin)

If you want to get the bitcoin method edit(), should be http://localhost/bitcoin/index.php/bitcoin/edit

Also, try removing your .htaccess AT ALL and see what happens.

Edit2

Oh, one last thing: use CI_Controller and not CI_controller, if you’re on a OS where lowercase matters you might encounter some problems