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Expression Engine - htaccess to hide index.php is not working. Why?

I have an MSM install with four (licensed) sites. Three of them work perfectly and behave as they should. The fourth one, currently under construction seems to have a mind of its own. The home page shows up but attempts to add additional templates or template groups with content do not display. I only get

The requested URL /template-name/ was not found on this server.

I double checked and made sure the Enable Strict URLs was set to No and the templates are all synched properly. At this point I am repeating myself. Any clues?

Edited

I found out that if I insert index.php into the URL the other pages and templates will show, which leads me to believe that I have something wrong with the htacess file.

Here is the code I am using (which has worked just fine for other sites):

# BEGIN ExpressionEngine Rewrite
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond $1 !\.(gif|jpe?g|png)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php?$1 [L]
</IfModule>
# END ExpressionEngine Rewrite

Any clues why this is not working correctly?

Solution

  • Turns out it was the htaccess file. I replaced the rewrite noted above with the following and it solved the problem:

    RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php?/$1 [L]