This is not a question - it's a tip.
There are many folks out there puzzled because the htaccess file supplied at the root of CI does not remove index.php from the URL. They've checked that mod_rewrite is on and that Allow overrides is on for their root, but still no joy. Lots of conflicting advice on Stackoverflow and the like. I tried it on three different Apache setups: at home it worked, at hosting provider A it worked, but at hosting provider B it did not.
Fortunately hosting provider B had a very smart support person who told me the fix.
The re-write rule supplied by CI is this : RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/$1 [L]
The one that works on all Apache servers is this: RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?/$1 [L]
Notice the ? at the end of index.php
It's backwards compatible - the new rule works on all the machines I tested it on.
So I'd like to suggest that the CI folks change the documentation for "Removing the index.php file"
Hope this will help someone
KT
