Remove "index.php" from URL - Codeigniter

Question

I've looked in the documentation of Codeigniter of removing the index.php from the URL when accessing different views, the code shows how to remove it with apache:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php|images|robots\.txt)
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php/$1 [L]

However, when I go to http://localhost/code/home, I get this:

The requested URL /code/home was not found on this server.

But accessing http://localhost/code/index.php/home works just fine, how come it isn't working for me?

I'm on a Mac OS X Snow Leopard using the Sites directory: /Users/~myusername~/Sites/code, and I'm not using any software, i.e. MAMP, XAMPP.

EDIT

For the sudo /usr/sbin/apachectl -k restart -S command, I get this:

VirtualHost configuration:
wildcard NameVirtualHosts and _default_ servers:
*:80                   is a NameVirtualHost
         default server code.local (/private/etc/apache2/httpd.conf:146)
         port 80 namevhost code.local (/private/etc/apache2/httpd.conf:146)
Syntax OK

Answer 1

You need to make "http://localhost/code" your web root as 'code.local' (in my example). Assuming that your setup on Mac OS X Snow Leopard is the same as mine.

You should add the following lines to "/etc/apache2/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf"

<VirtualHost *:80>
    DocumentRoot "/Users/~myusername~/Sites/code"
    ServerName "code.local"
    ErrorLog "/private/var/log/apache2/code-error_log"
    CustomLog "/private/var/log/apache2/code-access_log" common
</VirtualHost>

Also make sure that it is uncommented in "/etc/apache2/httpd.conf"

# Virtual hosts
Include /private/etc/apache2/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf

Then you add code.local to your "/etc/hosts" which should look like this

##
# Host Database
#
# localhost is used to configure the loopback interface
# when the system is booting.  Do not change this entry.
##
127.0.0.1       localhost
127.0.0.1       code.local

Then restart your apache "/usr/sbin/apachectl -k restart".

You might need to sudo if you are not a super user. Hope this helps.

EDIT: To check if your virtual host works. Run this sudo /usr/sbin/apachectl -k restart -S To see if code.local has been added as one of your virtual hosts.

Then try accessing code.local/index.php/welcome and code.local/welcome to check if it works.