Have you tried not using htaccess at all, just to eliminate it as the cause of the problem? If you're using a Windows system that makes it hard to create or rename files to start with dot, you can just temporarily delete the
contents of htaccess and leave the file itself. That will have the same effect.
Without htaccess, the only difference is that your URL must include the index.php part.
Code:
no - http://www.example.com/products/show
yes - http://www.example.com/index.php/products/show
If it displays fine without htaccess, the problem is not htaccess.
I know you think it's a server-side issue, but you might consider reinstalling the codeigniter files, just in case. Also, do you have or can you at least temporarily install some other PHP application. Wordpress is easy to set up. If a server-side problem is affecting CI, it should affect other applications that use PHP.
Hey, don't work without a PHP debugger. Several free IDEs have this features built in. Two are NetBeans and CodeLobster. Without a debugger, it's like you're driving with a blindfold on -- you are going to crash!
