This is my .htaccess file
RewriteEngine on RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php|images|user_guide|assets|captcha|robots\.txt) RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/$1 [L]
It should be placed in root of the website. Rewrite module of apache should be enabled or it will give you an 500 internal server error.
With this you can skip index.php in URL. Also some folders like images, assets you don’t want redirection. This file does all this. Short and sweet.
Tested on wamp 2.0i with codeigniter 1.7.2
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