CodeIgniter 404 Page Not Found, but why?

Question

I am using CodeIgniter for two applications (a public and an admin app). The important elements of the document structure are:

/admin
/admin/.htaccess
/admin         


        

Answer 1

Leaving this answer here for others who ran into my situation.

My codeigniter app was working fine in localhost/WAMP, but was unable to route and produced 404 not found errors when pushing to an AWS EC2 instance. My issue was solved from the answer from HERE htaccess works in localhost but doesn't work in EC2 instance

(route to my admin page) {domain}/admin was producing 404

the /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf file needs to be modified.

-after every instance of "DocumentRoot "/var/www/html"" (2 places) "AllowOverride None" needed to be changed to "AllowOverride All".

Restarted the EC2 instance from the AWS dashboard.

{domain}/admin is now accessible and working as intended.

hope this helps someone else like it helped me!