Moving Codeigniter Project to Amazon EC2, htaccess and ModRewrite Problems

Question

I am attempting to move my Codeigniter projects from a shared hosting service to Amazon EC2 and am running into some challenges with my .htaccess settings. These settings e

Answer 1

have you also tried

RewriteBase /

or RewriteBase /simple/

or along those lines?

in my dealings on servers i've used, i've never had to put the domain into the rewrite base. Just the folders

Answer 2

To answer my own question...

I wound up changing the Apache file /etc/apache/sites-available/default from AllowOverRide = None to AllowOverRide = All.