Answer by Mitchell McKenna for Codeigniter basepath issue on xampp

June 19 2011, 6:48pm

In your hosts file (C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts) add

127.0.0.1 dev.mysite.com

In your virtual host file for that site check the DocumentRoot has 'mysite' in it c:\xampp\apache\conf\extra\mysite.com.conf

DocumentRoot C:/path_to_my_website/site/www/htdocs/mysite/