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[eluser]CI705[/eluser]
hi all,
I am really struggling with the removal of index.php for hours.
I have been following the steps in http://codeigniter.com/wiki/mod_rewrite/ (except step4 coz i don't really know where to chagne it) but with no luck.

i am using

debian squeeze
apache 2.2
mysql 5.1
php 5.3

here is the structure in the www folder

/var/www
`-- CI
|-- application
|-- images
|-- index.php
|-- license.txt
|-- style
|-- system
`-- user_guide

and the .htaccess, which i put it inside the CI folder as well

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /CI/

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^system.*
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php?/$1 [L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^application.*
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php?/$1 [L]

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

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

and this is the httpd.conf

#SeverName 127.0.0.1

here is the config.php

$config['base_url']= 'http://127.0.0.1/CI';
$config['index_page'] = '';
$config['uri_protocol'] = 'REQUEST_URI';

I can only access the http://127.0.0.1/CI/index.php/welcome but not http://127.0.0.1/CI/welcome
I am really frustrated on this problem and i can't solve it myself.
thanks for any help.

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[eluser]Vlad Balmos[/eluser]
change

Code:

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?/$1 [L]

to this:

Code:

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /CI/index.php/$1 [L]

and see what happens

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[eluser]CI705[/eluser]
[quote author="Vlad Balmos" date="1311858900"]change

Code:

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?/$1 [L]

to this:

Code:

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /CI/index.php/$1 [L]

and see what happens[/quote]
thanks for the reply
i tried

Code:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
      RewriteEngine On
      RewriteBase /CI/

      RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^system.*
      RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php?/$1 [L]
    
      RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^application.*
      RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php?/$1 [L]

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

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

but i still got the error

Code:

Not Found

The requested URL /CI/welcome was not found on this server.
Apache/2.2.16 (Debian) Server at 127.0.0.1 Port 80

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[eluser]Vlad Balmos[/eluser]
Ok, try this instead:

Remove the following from the .htacces file:

Code:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^system.*
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php?/$1 [L]
    
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^application.*
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php?/$1 [L]

and change the uri_protocol to 'auto' in your config file. Maybe the server doesn't populate the Request_uri variable.

if that still doesn't work. Create a virtual host in apache, for example www.localsite.loc (read the apache docs for this), after that add the following lines in your /etc/hosts file:

Code:

127.0.0.1 localsite.loc
127.0.0.1 www.localsite.loc

restart the webserver, modify the base_url in config.php to point to www.localsite.loc
and finally replace .htaccess with this:

Code:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^localsite.loc [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.localsite.loc/$1 [L,R=301]

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

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[eluser]CI705[/eluser]
thanks for the help Vlad Balmos.
I have figured out what the problem is. It is the step 4 from the wiki which I didn't follow.
I am writing it down so it may help others and saving their hours of time.
edit /etc/apache2/sites-available/default

Code:

DocumentRoot /var/www
        <Directory />
                Options FollowSymLinks
                AllowOverride [color=red]FileInfo[/color]
        </Directory>
        <Directory /var/www/>
                Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
                AllowOverride None
                Order allow,deny
                allow from all
        </Directory>

if you get any internal server error, just follow the instructions in the wiki
cheers, i am so happy now, thanks for the help again.

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[eluser]Vlad Balmos[/eluser]
glad you figured it out.
Best of luck!