Codeigniter, routing is not functioning on production server

Question

I have 3 servers, a localhost apache server, a testing remote server and the production live server.

I have the same installation of codeigniter and site set-up on a

Answer 1

This is quite a common problem that often occurs when people move a codeigniter install from one environment to another. I have no idea why it occurs, could be a difference in server OS or apache settings, but the solution is often to add a question mark ? to the RewriteRule for the index.php in your .htaccess file.

Old:

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

New:

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