Migrating CodeIgniter from WAMP to Ubuntu 12.04 LTS LAMP

Question

After I successfully installed Ubuntu 12.04 LTS LAMP on my local machine, following this TUT. And installed phpmyadmin with this instruction. I migrated my working CodeIgniter project inside /var/www/ and updated my database. Everything seems to be working fine except i'm having a 404 error saying:

GET http://192.168.1.11/quantum/login/ 404 (Not Found)
The following error occured: error Not Found
GET http://192.168.1.11/quantum/user/ 404 (Not Found)
The following error occured: error Not Found

After hours of desperate troubleshooting I found some possible causes.

1. .htaccess (already updated)

RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule .* index.php/$0 [PT,L]

2. mod_rewrite (already enabled)

but still, i cant seem to make it work. any ideas? is there more to be configured to make the project running?

Answer 1

Turns out I forgot to reconfigure my htaccess by allowing override on my httpd.conf inside apache2.

<Directory /var/www/quantum>
  AllowOverride All
</Directory>

Works like peanut butter and jelly.

Answer 2

1. (dumb) Have you checked all folders have successfully been copied?
2. Have you changed your base_url in the config file? (/application/config/config.php)
3. When mod_rewrite is enabled (to remove the index.php in the URL), your index_page item in the config file must be blank.

If you have already checked these things, try disabling mod_rewrite in order to track if this is your issue.