Codeigniter setup

I'm wondering if there is something wrong with my CI setup. If I load the base_url ie http://localhost/~User/project/ then it loads perfectly, adding the index.php before the default controller. However, my config file has

 $config['index_page'] =  '';

As a test I returned this value to 'index.php'. When I loaded the base_url after this it returned: http://localhost/~User/project/index.php/index.php/controller/method

Is this what I shoul expect? I'm having big problems with my .htaccess file which doesn't seem to be working. I posted this as a separate question incase the two are unrelated.开发者_StackOverflow中文版

UPDATE: I've now got the .htaccess working and the index.php has disappeared BUT ONLY IF TYPE THE FULL URL.

If I just type the base_url then it loads the default controller but still adds the index.php into the string.

To clarify...

If I type: http://localhost/~User/project/controller/method everything works as expected and the URL stays exactly like this. Similarly if I follow relative links then the correct controllers and methods are loaded with index.php appearing in the URL.

If, however, I only type: http://localhost/~User/project it redirects me to http://localhost/~User/project/index.php/controller/method

The controller is the default that I have setup in my config file and I have also set

 $this->config['index_page'] = '';

Have you followed this tutorial to the letter?

Try using the following .htaccess file, it has never let me down so far:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>

        Options +FollowSymLinks
        RewriteEngine on

        # Send request via index.php (again, not if its a real file or folder)
        RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
        RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

        <IfModule mod_php5.c>
                RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/$1 [L]
        </IfModule>

        <IfModule !mod_php5.c>
                RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?/$1 [L]
        </IfModule>

</IfModule>

SOLVED:

Ok this makes me feel really stupid, but I found the cause of the problem. I had a redirect function tucked away in MY_Controller that I'd completely forgotten about. Because previously i couldn't get the .htaccess to work, I'd hard-coded the redirect to include index.php. Everything is now working as it should. Many apologies for wasting your time trying to solve a problem that didn't exist!