Alright here's the deal: my .htaccess file is not working at all
My server setup is SuSE on an Amazon EC2 Instance - Apache is setup, mod_rewrite is loaded and enabled - In my http.conf I have:
<Directory />
Options None
AllowOverride All
Order deny,allow
Deny from all
</Directory>
<Directory /srv/www/htdocs/>
AllowOverride All
</Directory>
# use .htaccess files for overriding,
AccessFileName .htaccess
# and never show them
<Files ~ "^\.ht">
Order allow,deny
Deny from all
</Files>
On the server I have CI install, .htacces does nothing it's supposed too. For example, to test to see if it works I created a .htacess that says 'deny from all', was still able to access the pages.
I have restarted apache each time I made a change to the configuration file.
What could be causing my htaccess files not be recognized?