removing index.php (docs are kinda sucky for this)

[eluser]ngkong[/eluser]
put the htaccess at directory http://virtual/project/company/project/branches/codign/

and the htaccess should be:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php|images|robots\.txt)
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /project/company/project/branches/codign/index.php/$1 [L]

set line 3 as the path to your codeigniter index.php directory (from webserver root)

while you upload the script to remote server, change htaccess back to normal (if your script run at domain root)

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php|images|robots\.txt)
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php/$1 [L]