Strange .htaccess behaviour

[eluser]plasticated[/eluser]
In order to track some .mp3 downloads I have created a controller that logs when it is requested and then 301 redirects to the actual file. I have my controller setup like this:

website.com/podcast/download/filename.mp3

The uri section 3 is used to query the database and the relevant file is served up.

It works fine locally, but when I deploy to my server I get a 404. It appears that this is caused by the query, because if I recode it using the id instead of the filename it works.

I am using the standard codeigniter .htaccess from the wiki to hide the index.php page. If I call it with the index.php included it works.

Any ideas?

[eluser]minerbog[/eluser]
Its not the first time I've seen this and I myself have had problems with the .htaccess file from the wiki. I use the below file created by Elliot Haughin and it works fine for me.

Code:

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


<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteBase /

    #Removes access to the system folder by users.
    #Additionally this will allow you to create a System.php controller,
    #previously this would not have been possible.
    #'system' can be replaced if you have renamed your system folder.
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^system.*
    RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php?/$1 [L]
    
    #When your application folder isn't in the system folder
    #This snippet prevents user access to the application folder
    #Submitted by: Fabdrol
    #Rename 'application' to your applications folder name.
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^application.*
    RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php?/$1 [L]

    #Checks to see if the user is attempting to access a valid file,
    #such as an image or css document, if this isn't true it sends the
    #request to index.php
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?/$1 [L]
</IfModule>

<IfModule !mod_rewrite.c>
    # If we don't have mod_rewrite installed, all 404's
    # can be sent to index.php, and everything works as normal.
    # Submitted by: ElliotHaughin

    ErrorDocument 404 /index.php
</IfModule>

[eluser]plasticated[/eluser]
Yeah, that doesn't work unfortunately. Very odd...

[eluser]minerbog[/eluser]
Have you considered it may be something to do with the dot in filename.mp3? I know it seems odd but you never know

Try just calling the filename from the uri segment and adding the .mp3 on in the controller.