Codeigniter - removing the index.php - .htaccess

Question

I've been trying for hours and could not make it work. Searched for answers everywhere, and nothing seems to solve my problem.
I even tried the solutions described here: Remove index.php in codeigniter 2.1.0. No luck at all.
I have set the config['index_page'] as ''.
My .htaccess is on the root folder (where the sys and app folders are) and is written like this:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule .* index.php/$0 [PT,L]
Still, the only way I can access my controller methods is with the goddamn index.php in the url.
And yes, my apache conf has mod rewrite enabled.
ANY HELP would be incredibly nice.
EDIT
I´ll add some more info, maybe it's relevant.
I´m using ZendServer.
I´m working at localhost by now.

Answer 1

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /yourdirectoryname/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?/ [L]
I have no experience on ZendServer, but tonight I also got this problem on localhost using xampp (without ZendServer), and finally got it worked :
check your httpd.conf, and make sure "LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so" line is not commented.
open config.php, set $config['base_url'] = 'http://localhost/yourdirectoryname/'
still in config.php, set $config['index_page'] = ''
create .htaccess file on the same directory with your index.php (in my case, htdocs/yourdirectoryname)
the content of that .htaccess file is as above

Answer 2

I have no experience with code igniter, but if I understand correctly you are trying to serve something like /index.php/my-page to the user, without the need for him to prepend index.php to it?
If I'm correct, you could try something like this:
RewriteBase / # make sure we always rewrite from within the root directory
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f # make sure the request is not to an existing file
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d # nor an existing directory
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !^index\.php # make sure we do only interpret requests that DO NOT start with index.php
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/$1 [L,QSA] # interpret request as if it were to index.php/...
# make sure we do only interpret requests that DO start with index.php
RewriteRule ^index\.php/(.*)$ $1 [L,R,QSA] # redirect user to new URL, which will be handled by the first rewriterule
Keep me posted whether this works or not

Answer 3

try this one, i've used this on many hosts anywhere , check:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /yoursitedirectory/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php/$1 [L]
if is not enought then go to config.php file and search for this line:
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| URI PROTOCOL
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| This item determines which server global should be used to retrieve the
| URI string. The default setting of 'AUTO' works for most servers.
| If your links do not seem to work, try one of the other delicious flavors:
|
| 'AUTO' Default - auto detects
| 'PATH_INFO' Uses the PATH_INFO
| 'QUERY_STRING' Uses the QUERY_STRING
| 'REQUEST_URI' Uses the REQUEST_URI
| 'ORIG_PATH_INFO' Uses the ORIG_PATH_INFO
|
*/
$config['uri_protocol'] = 'AUTO';
i use AUTO but you maybe need to switch that to REQUEST_URI or QUERY_STRING, try

Answer 4

I finally managed to work this out. Thanks for all the answers, special thanks to #ddanurwenda. His rewrite rules were the only ones that solved my problem.
There was an Apache config that I had overlooked: I changed this line (from httpd.conf):
<Directory />
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
Order deny,allow
Deny from all
</Directory>
To the following:
<Directory />
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
Order deny,allow
Deny from all
Satisfy all
</Directory>
That configuration were keeping my htaccess file from being read.

Answer 5

This is what I use and works.
Use this code in your .htaccess
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule .* website/index.php/$0 [PT,L]
Just make sure the .htaccess is in your root folder. (ie: xampp/htdocs)
Then in your config.php(application\config) replace
config['index_page']='index.php'
to
config['index_page']=''.