I searched other posts and tried creating a helper function to create an asset_url as explained in this post, but no luck. I previously had to set the base site in my config.php file as such: $config['base_url'] = 'http://localhost:8081/ci';.
The code in my application\views\layouts\main.php file, just before the closing body tag is:
<script src=<?php echo base_url();?>assets/js/jquery.js"></script>
<script src=<?php echo base_url();?>assets/js/bootstrap.min.js"></script>
I'm running on XAMPP. I had to change the port number to 8081 after installing visual stuido and it conflicted with the default port 80. So my exact queston is what else can I do to resolve the 403 forbidden access in code igniter so that JS and Jquery scripts will work?
