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As I understand it mod_rewrite is a server issue.  My hosting provider Netfirms is telling me that there is something wrong with my .htaccess file because I cannot remove the index.php on their server using php5 only php4.  I works fine on my dev system in php5 it works fine on their system in php4 but it does not work on their system in php5.

I don’t know enough about this stuff, but I think they are handing me a crock of uh something.

http://www.netfirms.com/web-hosting/

According to their advertising they offer mod_rewrite and php4/5 (no restrictions mentioned)

Any other hosting firms someone could reccomend.

These guys look interesting http://www.medialayer.com/hosting/index.html anyone use them?

Thanks,
Jeff

The mod_rewrite are to do with Apache and nothing to do with PHP 4 or 5, so it should work with either. I’m sorry but I don’t no much more about the issue than this. But I can recommend a another host where this works perfectly on in PHP 4 & 5 and has been tested with CI; http://www.wackywebs.net. We can provide this hosting from as little as £2.99 a month for 1gb of space and 100gb of transfer.

Hi all
after more research I found the following thread

http://ellislab.com/forums/viewthread/74221/

This is the importan line here

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php?/$1 [L] <—do not forget the ? after index.php!

In php4 the rewrite rule worked without the ?

In php5 not!

I really don’t know why ( i really don’t know squat ! )

Anyway I answered my own question, sort of, no thanks to netfirms.

Jeff

Thanks for sharing the incite of knowledge, this will help other people with the same problems. Most people just Put Solved in the tile and don’t explain how they did it, this is no use to other people who have the same problems. Thanks for explain how you found the answer! 😊

I’m glad I could add a little substance to this group.  I am looking forward to the day when I have some actual real wisdom and knowledge that I can share.

I have learned a lot in my lurking.

Jeff

Yeah, thanks for posting that. I’ll probably run into that problem later on when I’m about to go live where I work, so I’ll make note.

Hi!

I’m having the same problem… I had PHP4 and everything worked fine… But mow with this setting:
Apache/2.2.4 (Ubuntu) PHP/5.2.3-1ubuntu6.3 Server at localhost Port 80

This is what I get:

- clean CI 1.6.1. shows welcome controller, and using http://localhost/ci/index.php/welcome also works OK.

- When adding ah .htaccess file like this:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php|images|robots\.txt)
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php/$1 [L]

and setting index_page to blank:

$config['base_url']    = "http://localhost/ci/";
$config['index_page'] = "";

when typing this:

<a href="http://localhost/ci/welcome">http://localhost/ci/welcome</a>

a 404 error page appears:
The requested URL /ci/welcome was not found on this server.

Any idea on what Am I doing wrong?

Hi, you could try what I did and put the ? after the index.php

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php?/$1 [L] <—do not forget the ? after index.php!

I notice you don’t have that in your .htaccess

Jeff

@got 2 doodle

I’ve tried it with the question mark after index.php and without the slash before index.php.

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

? maybe?

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

? maybe?

nope. Not working. :(

I got it to work… But maybe there is a better way… This is how I did it:

this is the .htaccess file:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php|images|robots\.txt)
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /ci/index.php/$1 [L]

Without the /ci/ it said /index.php/page could not be found in the server.

Also tweaked /etc/apache2/sites-available/default:

DocumentRoot /var/www/
        <Directory >
                Options FollowSymLinks
                AllowOverride All 
        </Directory>
        <Directory /var/www>
                Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
                AllowOverride All 
                Order allow,deny
                allow from all
                # This directive allows us to have apache2's default start page
                # in /apache2-default/, but still have / go to the right place
                # RedirectMatch ^/$ /apache2-default/
        </Directory>

Both AllowOverride where set to None by default.

Is this the best way to proceed?

Thanks WackyWebs.net! Your post headed me in the right direction! 😉

The second AllowOverride set to All and the first to None also work properly! 😉

DocumentRoot /var/www/
        <Directory >
                Options FollowSymLinks
                AllowOverride None
        </Directory>
        <Directory /var/www>
                Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
                AllowOverride All
                Order allow,deny
                allow from all
                # This directive allows us to have apache2 default start page
                # in /apache2-default/, but still have / go to the right place
                # RedirectMatch ^/$ /apache2-default/
        </Directory>

do you have a rewrite_base specified

This is what works for me on the remote server, index is located in /my-root-dir/sbx1/tatacentre.ca/index.php

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
   RewriteEngine On
   RewriteBase /sbx1/tatacentre.ca/
   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
   RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?/$1 [L]
</IfModule>

<IfModule !mod_rewrite.c>
   # If we don't have mod_rewrite installed, all 404's
   # can be sent to index.php, and everything works as normal.
   # Submitted by: ElliotHaughin

   ErrorDocument 404 /index.php
</IfModule>

Remote server is Linux running apache 2.2 and php 5

This works locally on xamp local files are located at c:/xampp/htdocs/tatacentre.ca/index.php

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteBase /tatacentre.ca/
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/$1 [L]
</IfModule>

<IfModule !mod_rewrite.c>
    # If we don't have mod_rewrite installed, all 404's
    # can be sent to index.php, and everything works as normal.
    # Submitted by: ElliotHaughin

    ErrorDocument 404 /index.php
</IfModule>