Maybe I’m missing something simple, but I’m having a problem and was hoping someone could help.

A general description of the problem
I’m getting CodeIgniter’s 404 error page no matter what

On closer inspection

My “logs” directory contains a file that says:

DEBUG - 2007-07-06 11:00:25—> Config Class Initialized
DEBUG - 2007-07-06 11:00:25—> Hooks Class Initialized
DEBUG - 2007-07-06 11:00:25—> No URI present. Default controller set.
DEBUG - 2007-07-06 11:00:25—> Router Class Initialized
DEBUG - 2007-07-06 11:00:25—> Output Class Initialized
DEBUG - 2007-07-06 11:00:25—> Input Class Initialized
DEBUG - 2007-07-06 11:00:25—> Global POST and COOKIE data sanitized
DEBUG - 2007-07-06 11:00:25—> URI Class Initialized
DEBUG - 2007-07-06 11:00:25—> Language Class Initialized
ERROR - 2007-07-06 11:00:25—> 404 Page Not Found—>

This happens whether I go to the default directory (mapping to index), to the default controller set up in routs or to any “directory” representing a valid controller or not.

The only non-standard things are that I have hooks (filters) enabled and my .htaccess file isn’t as described in the documentation (I get a server config problem if I do it just as the docs say). It is set up:

But for CI to be using the CI 404, it has to be working.

Any tips?

Does accessing the url with “index.php” intact work? Is it just when you try to remove index.php from the url that this happen?

I use the same approach that you do, but I also include the following condition to check existence of directories:

Here’s a full RewriteRule from one of my sites (same on all of my sites):