.htaccess issues: No input file specified

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Can someone help me with this? I'm feeling like I've been hitting my head against a wall for over 2 hrs now. I've got `Apache 2.2.8 + PHP 5.2.6` installed on my machine and the `.htaccess` with the code below works fine, no errors. ``` RewriteEngine on RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php|css|gfx|js|swf|robots\.txt|favicon\.ico) RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php/$1 [L] ``` The same code on my hosting provider server gives me a 404 error code and outputs `only: No input file specified.` index.php is there. I know they have Apache installed (cannot find version info anywhere) and they're running PHP v5.2.8. I'm on `Windows XP 64-bit`, they're running some `Linux` with `PHP` in `CGI/FastCGI` mode. Can anyone suggest what could be the problem? PS. if that's important that's for `CodeIgniter` to work with friendly URLs. Update1: `mod_rewrite` is installed and on. What I've noticed is that if I change in `RewriteRule` to `/index.php?$1` (question mark instead of forward slash) it goes into an infinite…

Accepted Answer

I was beating my head up against this as well. I'm also installing Code Igniter.

The goocher was no RewriteBase. Here's my .htaccess:

```
DirectoryIndex index.php

RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php|robots\.txt)

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?/$1 [L]
```

.htaccess issues: No input file specified

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