Dreaded 1&1 Web Hosting Nightmare

[eluser]44kyle[/eluser]
Hello Fellow Code Igniter enthusiasts,

I just finished development on a site for a client of ours (http://thefireemporium.com/) and launched the site. Not a big deal right? WRONG!! Haha. We built a custom content management system behind the scenes and when I visit the following URL, I get the dreaded 403 Not found (http://thefireemporium.com/admin). Ok, well, after calling the 1&1 tech support, they tell me that I need an index.php or index.html file underneath the admin folder. My question is,,, WHY???. LOL. What about URL rewriting?

Here is my .htaccess file. Now I did some Googling and discovered on a recent post that 1&1 are still working off of PHP4. Can someone confirm/deny this?

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /


RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/$1 [L]

AddType x-mapp-php5 .php
AddHandler x-mapp-php5 .php
</IfModule>

<IfModule !mod_rewrite.c>
ErrorDocument 404 index.php
</IfModule>

Is there some RewriteRule or something I can add to this to make the admin section show up like it should?

Thanks in Advance

Kyle

[eluser]Madmartigan1[/eluser]
Before you get on the wrong track trying to solve this, just want to note that php version should have nothing to do with it.

I'm getting a 'CI' 404 here as well:

http://thefireemporium.com/index.php/admin

Maybe post your routes file as well?

Edit: Well, maybe php version does matter here if it's breaking your Router.php

[eluser]Rogier[/eluser]
MY_Router gives an error:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '=', expecting '(' in /homepages/45/d193239887/htdocs/wsb4392724501/system/application/libraries/MY_Router.php on line 7

[eluser]44kyle[/eluser]
Sorry guys. It won't allow me to delete this post.

[eluser]Madmartigan1[/eluser]
No don't post your Router, I meant config/routes.php.
Remove that stuff.

[eluser]44kyle[/eluser]
&lt;?php

$route["(:any)"] = "$1";
$route["(:any)/(:any)"] = "$1/$2";
$route["(:any)/(:any)/(:any)"] = "$1/$2/$3";

?&gt;

[eluser]Madmartigan1[/eluser]
You can probably remove that Router you posted to make this thread readable.

Code:

//also use code tags for code

http://thefireemporium.com/outdoorliving/somerandomjunk

We get a nice slideshow of php errors. Very funny

Is /admin a real directory or is it routed somewhere?

[eluser]44kyle[/eluser]
It is a real directory and the url is routed through the root index.php. Then Code Igniter decides where it should go in the application.

[eluser]Madmartigan1[/eluser]
FWIW, search "1&1" in the forums. You may find your answer, I see a lot of posts concerning mod_rewrite.

[eluser]44kyle[/eluser]
Solved! I moved it to a different provider. Works as it should without hacking the .htaccess file to death.