title: Rewriterule for CodeIgniter not working
body: <p>I have installed a clean Apache2 (plus PHP &amp; MySQL) server and enabled the <code>mod_rewrite</code> in the apache config. 
  I added the <code>.htaccess</code> file to remove the index.php from the url as described in the CodeIgniter wiki.</p>
  
  <pre><code>RewriteEngine on
  RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php|images|robots\.txt)
  RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php/$1 [L]
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I placed this file in the website's root. </p>
  
  <p>When I try to access the url <code>mydomain.local/index.php/welcome</code> then I get the default page of CodeIgniter. But when I try to access the same page through <code>mydomain.local/welcome</code> then I get the 404 page. </p>
  
  <p>How can I check if the whole rewrite rule is working? And why isn't it working?</p>