Nothing seems to work to successfully remove index.php

Question

No matter what I try, I can't seem to successfully remove index.php. I'm wondering if the host is lacking some setting in the server environment... otherwise the site hosts just fine.

Here's what I've done:

-- Made an .htaccess file containing nothing but the supported method

(http://ellislab.com/expressionengine/user-guide/urls/remove_index.php.html)

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine On

    # Removes index.php from ExpressionEngine URLs
    RewriteCond $1 !\.(gif|jpe?g|png)$ [NC]
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php/$1 [L]
</IfModule>

-- Cleared the "Name of your site's index page" field in General Configuration

-- In system/expressionengine/config/config.php, I've tried setting the $config['uri_protocol'] to each of the alternate configurations.

I'm running EE 2.6.1. Can't seem to figure out what's going on, at all.

The only thing I can think of is that I'm running from an IP address type URL, e.g. http://xx.xx.xxx.xx/~sitename, but I don't see why that would affect anything.

Thanks to ALL who take a stab at the answer - this is driving me a little bonkers.

Answer 1

As Dylan mentioned, set a RewriteBase, or modify "/index.php" to something like "/~sitename/index.php"

Answer 2

What actually happens when you do this? You said it doesn't work, but do you see 404 pages, white screens, what?

One thing you could try is changing this line:

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php/$1 [L]

to this:

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/$1 [L]