Removing index.php on MAMP

this questions was asked before and has had many responses. The problem is nothing i tried worked.

Background: i use MAMP and all of my web project are located under WebProjects which I relocated out of its standard location within the MAMP folder in Applications. so my structure is something like this:

Documents/WebProjects/GreatSite/Application/...

What happened so far: my understanding is that removing index.php can be done either through httpd.conf or .htaccess. anytime i touched httpd.conf, Apache refuses to start. I tried various edits to .htaccess including the one in codeigniter.com/wiki/mod-rewrite and the last one from a post on SO which is this:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php?/$1 [L]  

this give me the following error when i access the site:

An Error Was Encountered

Unable to determine what should be displayed. A default route has not been specified in the routing file.

I have updated config.php to have $config['index_page'] = ''; and i have placed the .htaccess file in the GreatSite folder.

One other note, my CI system folder is up a level from GreatSite. Not sure if this has any impact. also, apache has the module loaded.

so, I'm hoping someone has successfully done this on MAMP and could provide direction specifically around the content of their .htaccess (or even httpd.conf), it's location and any other mods they had to make to get this going.

update

and trying to access a controller using http://localhost:8888/greatsite/account rewrites the url 开发者_JAVA技巧as http://localhost:8888/greatsite/account/index and gives 2 errors:

Message: Undefined index: scaffolding_trigger

Filename: libraries/Router.php

Line Number: 164

and

Message: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /Users/djeetee/Documents/DevProjects/system/libraries/Exceptions.php:166)

Filename: libraries/Session.php

Line Number: 662

hope this helps.

thanks

.htaccess does not have to reside in the same folder as index.php. You can do

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

for instance. Just make sure you have the correct RewriteBase and then correct path to your index.php and that the rewrite module is enabled in apache.