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I don’t want to write too much here, since I had a lot to do tonight and I wrote this so that I won’t have to search it all over the internet whenever I had the same case again in the future *giggles*

So, straigth to the problems : I’m using Code Igniter as development framework and i need to remove that annoying “index.php” from the URI. From the CI Wiki I found that the solution is to add a .htaccess file and so on you could read here. But after I tried it, nothing happened. The browser still always displaying 404 Not Found whenever I tried to access any controller without the “index.php”. Seems that my Apache is not enabling mod_rewrite by default then. So after searching I found the solution is like this:

• Create symlink from /etc/apache2/mods-available/rewrite.so to /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/. Normal symlink creation is OK, but another way to do it is to write

sudo a2enmod rewrite

• Open /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default and change every AllowOverride None into AllowOverride All below the Document Root. On my case it would becoming like this

DocumentRoot /www/
<Directory />
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
</Directory>
<Directory /www/>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
allow from all
</Directory>

• Lastly … restart apache … you know how …

Back to work then …

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