Eliminating the index segment in a URL (htaccess)

[eluser]tim042829[/eluser]
[quote author="bretticus" date="1280895398"]"test" is your controller file so your URL should be:

Code:

http://localhost/CodeIgniter/test/

[/quote]
Actually, the URL above is generating a 404 error

htaccess will rewrite that internally as:

Code:

http://localhost/CodeIgniter/index.php/test/

according to your Rewrite code.

Calling the previous URL is successful.

CodeIgniter will automatically call your index method/function in your test controller unless you specify otherwise.

Please note:

Code:

http://localhost/CodeIgniter/test/

and

Code:

http://localhost/CodeIgniter/test/index

are equivalent.

And that previous URL request is also generating a 404 error.

Anything that needs to work outside of the controller/method URL convention, can be handles via routes (no need to update htaccess.)

See Routing

I appreciate the response. With the 404 error from the http://localhost/CodeIgniter/test/ URL,
I would then guess that there is something wrong with my code or with the .htaccess
code, or in the apache configuration itself.
Any ideas where to look?