CodeIgniter 3 base_url function returns wrong url

Question

I am using XAMPP, MySQL and CodeIgniter.

I already included,

$autoload['helper'] = array('url');

in autoload.php.

<?php echo base_url(); ?>

returns http://::1/mysite/ instead of http://localhost/mysite/ .

Can anyone help me with this issue?

Answer 1

You need to make sure you have set your base_url in. Most likely because you left it blank. This is a common thing that people do not know about or forget to do.

application > config > config.php

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

One of the issues when you try to submit form with out base url not set is will not go to correct url, when you try to submit a form so that why in codeigniter 3 all ways best to set your base_url even though not a requirement.

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