how do you really remove index.php

[eluser]Ace_ov_Spade[/eluser]
I used these in my htaccess.

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


it should work. actually this is the same thing used by the previous posters