Yet another htaccess post (why isn't this taken care of by default?)

[eluser]welzie[/eluser]
I have read post after post, but still get 404 without "index.php" in my urls.

Using
apache 2.2.8
php5.2.5
windows xp

Here is my file setup
c:/apache/htdocs/myApplication/index.php
c:/apache/htdocs/myApplication/.htaccess
c:/apache/htdocs/myApplication/system (codeIgniter code pasted from zip file)

config.php values
$config['index_page'] = "index.php";
$config['base_url'] = "http://127.0.0.1/myApplication/";


P.S. An example project would be useful to learn common config settings like htaccess, etc.

[eluser]nevercraft[/eluser]
Try: $config['index_page'] = "";

[eluser]avinashv[/eluser]
That is most definitely the first thing you want to do.

Post your htaccess here to make sure, once your cleared 'index_page' and if it still fails, there aren't any problems there.

[eluser]Michael Wales[/eluser]
It's not automatically taken care of because every server is configured differently and some of us (/me raises hand) don't even use Apache.

The most common solution, commonly referred to the WordPress .htaccess file (among circles outside of CI) is provided in the documentation.

[eluser]welzie[/eluser]
Finally got it to work thanks to a very helpful wiki post.

Here is how I fixed my Apache htaccess problem.
1)Follow these instructions from this wiki post (this article should really be linked to from the main manual IMHO):
http://codeigniter.com/wiki/mod_rewrite/
2)Make sure to include your application name in the part of the .htaccess file that forwards to index.php. See below.
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ myApplication/index.php/$1 [L]
</IfModule>


P.S. No response to my suggestion for a sample application?

@michael Wales, understood that some people use IIS(feel sorry for those people) or another server besides apache. But since a LARGE majority use apache wouldn't it benefit the project to have a little more documentation on the htaccess mod_rewrite subject?