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The homepage for my site will not display UNLESS I add /index.php to the URL

http://www.results.org - displays error message
http://www.results.org/index.php - displays the homepage

This is the case even after I delete the .htaccess file

Here is my .htaccess file

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
      RewriteEngine On

      # Removes index.php from ExpressionEngine URLs
      RewriteCond $1 !\.(gif|jpe?g|png)$ [NC]
      RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
      RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
      RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php/$1 [L]
 
 
      redirect 301 /donate http://www.results.org/support_results/support_results/
      redirect 301 /take_action/become_a_results_activist/find_a_community_results_group http://www.results.org/site/find_a_community_results_group/
</IfModule>

Update:
I contacted the host - they said:

The servers are configured to always add index.php to the end of a URL, so try changing your code to remove index.php to the following and see if it yields better results:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond $1 !^(images|eesys|themes|slideshow|images_survivors|favicon\.ico|scripts|robots\.txt|index\.php)
[NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php/$1 [L]

If index.php is not being added automatically without the .htaccess command in place, then ExpressionEngine may be removing it automatically for some reason.  To test this, one thing you can try is to temporarily replace your EE index.php with a random index.php file to see if it is indeed the CMS that is removing it.

The suggested .htaccess code did not work - generated a server error, so I switched back to the code posted above.  Then:

I replaced index.php with a random index.php and:

http://www.results.org/index.php/ displays the content of the random index.php file
http://www.results.org/ displays “This site will be offline momentarily while we perform some updates.”

Turns out the file index.html, which i created months and months ago, and forgot about because it didn’t load for some reason, suddenly decided to start working.  Anyway.. all fixed now.