how do you really remove index.php

[eluser]bpdp[/eluser]
Thanks for you reply tomcode. I had tried using the rewrite base before with no luck and unfortunately that is still the case. I get no error... it just doesn't work. Thanks for the tip in #2 though. I'm not trying to access anything special I just want my url to look like: http://localhost/freelance/ps/home/ instead of: http://localhost/freelance/ps/index.php/home/

this is so frustrating, I've been trying to get this to work for a couple days now and the mod_rewrite docs are a little over my head. seems like it should be easy.

my current (non-working) file looks like this:

Code:

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

Anything that I might be missing?