Mod Rewrite works if site is in a sub directory but not in the root

[eluser]Daniel Moore[/eluser]
For a complete walk-through of a good .htaccess, visit:
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My first suggestion is to change:

Code:

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/$1 [L]

to:

Code:

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/$1 [NC,L,QSA]

The above referenced link should tell you why if you read through it all. This may very well fix the situation you are experiencing.

Another issue I would address is a simple house-cleaning issue.

Your lines:

Code:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

and

Code:

RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php|public|images|tmp|robots\.txt|css)

are redundant. Use one or the other, but not both. I recommend the first one. If you have directories that you do not want accessed, as you are indicating by "public|images|tmp|css" and you do not want these accessed directly, then simply place a .htaccess file in each directory you wish to deny access to, with a single line in the .htaccess file as follows:

Code:

deny from all