Still with index.php problem

[eluser]tpiscotti[/eluser]
OK. Here's where I'm at now. I do have AllowOverride All set and I have it set to a <Directory> block specific to the location of the CI site I'm working on, so it looks like:

Code:

<Directory "C:/Apache/htdocs/blogtest">
    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes ExecCGI
    AllowOverride All
    Order deny,allow
    Deny from all
</Directory>

I WAS able to generate the internal server 500 error so it seems to be recognizing .htaccess now. (Phew!)

I then removed the bogus line of code you suggested that caused the 500 error and now, instead of getting the 404 Not Found error I'm now getting the 403 Forbidden error. As long as .htaccess is getting recognized now, I'm fine with that. But I'm not sure what other settings to check at this point to address the 403 error.

My config.php file has the following settings near the top (in case anyone might ask how I have these settings set):

Code:

$config['base_url']    = "http://localhost:81/blogtest/";
...
$config['index_page'] = "";
...
$config['uri_protocol']    = "AUTO";

I also tried all the other settings for 'uri_protocol' but none seemed to trigger a change.

Onecode, I also tried the same approach you did in my .htaccess file but it didn't work for me (I'm glad you were able to get it resolved though!).

What is causing the 403 Forbidden error?

Thank you!!