Kohana 3 deployment controller problems - model-view-controller

Question

I have recently migrated my app from a windows localhost up to a linux host.
My problems is that I can't access a controller, I always keep getting the message: File not found.(From the web server)
And this is odd because the same code base is working on my localhost.
bootstrap.php:
Route::set('default', '(<controller>(/<action>(/<id>)(/<param1>)(/<param2>)))')
->defaults(array(
'controller' => 'user',
'action' => 'index',
'param1' =>'',
'param2' =>'',
));
.htaccess:
# Turn on URL rewriting
RewriteEngine On
# Installation directory
RewriteBase /
# Protect application and system files from being viewed
RewriteRule ^(?:application|modules|system)\b.* index.php/$0 [L]
# Allow any files or directories that exist to be displayed directly
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
# Rewrite all other URLs to index.php/URL
RewriteRule .* index.php/$0 [PT]
The odd thing that happens here is that if I go to :
www.myapp.com/ then the default controller executes and it finds the user/index function.
But if I manually write it as www.myapp.com/user/index I keep getting the File not found message.
I have tried renaming the controller files with lowercase so I guess thats not the problem, besides if that would be the problem, the default route wouldn`t find it in the first place, right?
If for example I write in the default route:
Route::set('default', '(<controller>(/<action>(/<id>)(/<param1>)(/<param2>)))')
->defaults(array(
'controller' => 'user',
'action' => 'login',
'param1' =>'',
'param2' =>'',
));
And I accesss www.myapp.com , it would load the user function. I can't figure out what is wrong here, why when I write myapp.com/user/login it says file not found, but if I put it as the default route it opens it.

Answer 1

did you set the base_url in bootstrap.php? if no, you should set the base_url your_project_name/
if yes, you should set the RewriteBase /your_project_name/ also in your .htaccess

Answer 2

I found the solution in another thread related to this. You need to add this chunk of code into .htaccess:
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
Hope it helps the others !