.htaccess issue, brand new CI install, mediatemple hosting

[eluser]georges[/eluser]
Arman.mt:

Thanks for dropping in on the thread. I've done as you suggested, but I am still seeing the same behaviour. One clarification, must the default site that I set be the site that I am testing now? I have 25+ domains on the server with one that should be the default, but the domain in question is not the default one. Does this make a difference?

llbbl:

Thanks for the input, but unfortunately the ? didn't help. I can access http://www.domain.com/index.php without an .htaccess file on the server, but I CANNOT get there with one on the server.

Further information:

Ok, I am in the middle of writing this post and I just went into my error_log to get some more info for all of you.... aaannddd now I feel dumb.

This is what is in my error_log:

Code:

[Thu Oct 04 07:16:05 2007] [error] [client 64.xxx.xxx.xxx] Options FollowSymLinks or SymLinksIfOwnerMatch is off which implies that RewriteRule directive is forbidden: /var/www/vhosts/domain.com/subdomains/sub/httpdocs/

So, I modified my .htaccess to be:

Code:

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php|images|robots\.txt|favicon\.ico)
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php?/$1 [L]

And now it works!

Thanks to everyone for your input and hopefully this thread will help someone else out in the future.

Georges