.htaccess issue, brand new CI install, mediatemple hosting

[eluser]darrenfauth[/eluser]

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

Wow. This is an old thread, but I'm SO THANKFUL I found it. I am that someone! I have been messing around all day trying to get rid of the index.php in my urls. None of the .htaccess or httpd.conf examples worked for me. This is not my first project with CI and it was maddening that none of the multitude of forum threads (nor my previous experience with CI) held the answer.

My local environment is: wampserver 2.0 on a Windows machine with Windows 7
My live environment is: Mediatemple dv server, Apache 2.2.3 & php5

Then I found this thread and the 'silver bullet' was to include

Options +FollowSymLinks

at the beginning of my .htaccess file.

It eliminated the index.php from both localhost and mediatemple.