How to remove index.php from url?

[eluser]qpixo[/eluser]
Does anyone know how to remove 'index.php' ?

While clicking on menu options, I got that annoying error 404: The requested URL /index.php/site_controller/1 was not found on this server. I'm running in localhost, does .htaccess will work?


I have tried these methods but without success of course restart apache server:
In Config.php

Code:

$config['index_page'] = '';
$config['uri_protocol'] = 'REQUEST_URI';

My Menu View:

Code:

...
$url = "<ul><li><a href='site_controller/" . $item-&gt;cat_id . "'>" . strtoupper($item->name) . "</a></li></ul>";

My .htaccess:

Code:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteBase /

    Options +FollowSymLinks
    RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php|css|images|robots\.txt)
    RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/$1 [L]
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^system.*
</IfModule>

Routes.php:

Code:

// Custom routes
$route['site_controller/(:num)'] = "site_controller/loadPage/$1";