Removing index.php - official guide not working (code igniter)

Question

I am trying to remove the index.php in the url for Code Igniter. According to the official guide, I should add the following code to the .htaccess file.

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Answer 1

Make this changes to config file

 $config['base_url'] = 'http://localhost/projectname/';
 $config['index_page'] = '';

Then in ur .htaccess try

 DirectoryIndex index.php
 RewriteEngine on
 RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php|(.*)\.swf|forums|images|css|downloads|js|robots\.txt|favicon\.ico)
 RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
 RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
 RewriteRule ^(.*)$ ./index.php?$1 [L,QSA] 

Also make sure that you have mod_rewrite enabled in your apache configuration

The .htaccess file should be in root directory of your project, ie outside application folder