.htaccess throws a 500 error

Question

I am using CodeIgniter and need to get rid of the \"index.php\" in the URL. I copied the .htaccess file from codeigniter tutorial, emptied the $config[\'index_page\'] = \'\'; an

Answer 1

If this is really part of the .htaccess file, it would cause your problem:

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

Should be:

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

Answer 2

I too had the same problem but my code was correct and i was using wamp server, then I found rewrite module is not enabled

so went to apache/conf/httpd.conf and uncommented line

LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so

Now its working fine.