I have this codeingniter project structure

webRoot
  |
  |/application
  |    |
  |    |/controllers
  |          |
  |          |/admin
  |
  |/public
  |    |
  |    |/admin
  |    |   |
  |    |   |/css
  |    |   |/img
  |    |/css
  |    |/img

And this is my .htacess file, located in /public. I use this in every local project running xampp:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteBase /
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/$1 [L]
</IfModule>

<IfModule !mod_rewrite.c>
    # If we don't have mod_rewrite installed, all 404's
    # can be sent to index.php, and everything works as normal.
    # Submitted by: ElliotHaughin

    ErrorDocument 404 /index.php
</IfModule>

It works fine in localhost, but doesn't work in a dreamhost server. I always get "no input file specified". So after searching the web and trying lots of combinations, the best I got is this .htaccess file:

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^ index.php [L]

With this one, if I go to

• http://development.mydomain.com - I see the codeigniter welcome page

But if I go to:

• http://development.mydomain.com/admin - I see the directory listing of /public/admin and doesn't execute the controller in /application/controllers/admin

Again, if I go to:

• http://development.mydomain.com/admin/admin - I see the private area, it executes the controller and goes to the default controller defined in routes, "dashboard"

This works fine too:

• http://development.mydomain.com/admin/dashboard

I have set in my config file:

$config['index_page'] = '';
$config['base_url']   = '';
$config['uri_protocol'] = 'AUTO';

I think that whatever is wrong in my .htaccess is causing other path issues I have with my project.

Any help would be great. Thanks to all in advance

EDIT: I removed this line:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

because admin directory exists, that's why I see the public directory listing. But now I see the codeigniter welcome page when I go to http://development.mydomain.com/admin

So now my .htaccess file looks like:

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f

RewriteRule ^ index.php [L]

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

I also tried with the commented RewriteRule but I get the same result.