CodeIgniter Remove index.php with .htaccess - apache

Question

I've been working on this for an hour already so I figured I might as well ask.
I am trying to remove the index.php from my CodeIgniter app's URL and can not do it.
The app is running on a dedicated server in my office and I access the app through the url http://smr_local
This is my base virtual host block
<VirtualHost 192.168.1.90:80>
ServerAdmin admin#server.com
DocumentRoot "/var/www/smr.dev/app"
ServerName smr_local
ErrorLog "/etc/httpd/logs/error_log"
CustomLog "/etc/httpd/logs/access_log" common
<Directory /var/www/smr.dev/app>
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
AllowOverride All
</Directory>
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine on
</IfModule>
</VirtualHost>
Here is my .htaccess file
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
# Hide the application and system directories by redirecting the request to index.php
RewriteRule ^(application|system|\.svn) index.php/$1 [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php/$1 [QSA,L]
And my config file
$config['base_url'] = "http://smr_local/";
$config['index_page'] = '';
$config['uri_protocol'] = 'REQUEST_URI';
Right now when I'm trying to access my base url http://smr_local/user/courses I get an error in my apache error log I get this.
File does not exist: /var/www/smr.dev/app/user
I really don't know what to try next. Any help would be appreciated.

Answer 1

Have you checked official user guide?
example.com/index.php/news/article/my_article
You can easily remove this file by using a .htaccess file with some simple rules. Here is an example of such a file, using the "negative" method in which everything is redirected except the specified items:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php|images|robots\.txt)
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php/$1 [L]
In the above example, any HTTP request other than those for index.php, images, and robots.txt is treated as a request for your index.php file.
I have been working with Codeigniter previously and that is how I get it to work:
Here is my .htaccess (assuming you have default folder structure):
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
# Removes access to the system folder by users.
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^system.*
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php?/$1 [L]
# Prevents user access to the application folder
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^application.*
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php?/$1 [L]
# Checks to see if the user is attempting to access a valid file,
# such as an image or css document, if this isn't true it sends the
# request to index.php
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?/$1 [L]
</IfModule>
<IfModule !mod_rewrite.c>
ErrorDocument 404 /index.php
</IfModule>
That is relevant part of config.php:
$config['base_url'] = '';
$config['index_page'] = '';
$config['uri_protocol'] = 'AUTO';
$config['url_suffix'] = '';
If this won't help, your problem likely in Apache configuration.
Then provide your httpd.conf and any other relevant configurations, not only virtual-hosts.