codeigniter and form submit - php

Question

I am trying to get used to Codeigniter. I am sorry if that is a trivial or dumb question but I have been struggling to have the "News Section" of Codeigniter's tutorial work.
There is this form (from here)
<h2><?php echo $title; ?></h2>
<?php echo validation_errors(); ?>
<?php echo form_open('news/create'); ?>
<label for="title">Title</label>
<input type="input" name="title" /><br />
<label for="text">Text</label>
<textarea name="text"></textarea><br />
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Create news item" />
</form>
which, according to this controller:
<?php
class News extends CI_Controller {
public function __construct()
{
parent::__construct();
$this->load->model('news_model');
$this->load->helper('url_helper');
}
public function index()
{
$data['news'] = $this->news_model->get_news();
$data['title'] = 'My News archive';
$this->load->view('templates/header', $data);
$this->load->view('news/index', $data);
$this->load->view('templates/footer');
}
public function view($slug = NULL)
{
$data['news_item'] = $this->news_model->get_news($slug);
if (empty($data['news_item']))
{
show_404();
}
$data['title'] = $data['news_item']['title'];
$this->load->view('templates/header', $data);
$this->load->view('news/', $data);
$this->load->view('templates/footer');
}
public function create()
{
$this->load->helper('form');
$this->load->library('form_validation');
$data['title'] = 'Create a news item';
$this->form_validation->set_rules('title', 'Title', 'required');
$this->form_validation->set_rules('text', 'Text', 'required');
if ($this->form_validation->run() === FALSE)
{
$this->load->view('templates/header', $data);
$this->load->view('news/create');
$this->load->view('templates/footer');
}
else
{
$this->news_model->set_news();
$this->load->view('news/success');
}
}
}
should, I think, if the validation returns ok, go ahead and insert the data into the db. Now, my problem is that the pages run under:
http://localhost/codeigniter/index.php/news/
The submit button, however, returns me to:
http://localhost/codeigniter/index.php/news/localhost/codeigniter/index.php/news/create
The routes.php file contains the following code:
$route['news/create'] = 'news/create';
$route['news/(:any)'] = 'news/view/$1';
$route['news'] = 'news';
$route['(:any)'] = 'news/view/$1';
$route['default_controller'] = 'news';
I don't know why this is happening. Thank you for any help.

Answer 1

Did you set your base_url config in application/config/config.php ?