I'm very new to Code Igniter (as in I just finished their "official" video tutorial), and I was wondering if there was a way to clean up the URLs just a little bit more.

Basically, is there some setting to keep the "index.php" out of the URL? 

So instead of this...

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> <http://localhost/codeigniter/index.php/blog/comments/>
> 
> 
> 

...you see this:

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> <http://localhost/codeigniter/blog/comments/>
> 
> 
> 

Or do I have to rewrite the URLs myself with .htaccess?