CodeIgniter route not working

Question

I have the following routes in my routes file:

$route['default_controller'] = "main";
$route['404_override'] = '';
$route['testroute'] = "main";

As you can see all I want is when someone goes to mydomain.com/testroute it should just route back to the default controller. However when I go to that I get a 404 error. Am I doing something wrong in the way I'm writing this route?

Answer 1

You have to create the .htaccess file in your app.

DirectoryIndex index.php
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php|images|css|js|robots\.txt|favicon\.ico)
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ ./index.php/$1 [L,QSA] 

Please paste this code in your .htaccess file.

Answer 2

LoneWolfPR hit the nail on the head with his comment, you are using FastCGI which requires a different htaccess.

Can you try using this one?

https://raw.github.com/pyrocms/pyrocms/develop/.htaccess

I am tempted to propose we add it into CodeIgniter 2.1-dev to save this question coming up 15 times a day. Let me know if it works or fails.