PHP Codeigniter - Apache virtual host setup trouble - php

Question

This has been doing my head in. Hope you guys can help. I can't find out where the error lies.
httpd-vhosts.conf
NameVirtualHost 127.0.0.1
<VirtualHost 127.0.0.1>
DocumentRoot /opt/lampp/htdocs
ServerName localhost
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost 127.0.0.1>
DocumentRoot /home/tilman/Sites/mysite/www
ServerName mysite.lo
</VirtualHost>
/etc/hosts
127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.0.1 mysite.lo
config.php
$config['base_url'] = "http://mysite.lo";
$config['index_page'] = "";
www/.htaccess
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/$1 [L]
</IfModule>
<IfModule !mod_rewrite.c>
ErrorDocument 404 index.php
</IfModule>
Now http://mysite.lo shows me the default controller. http://mysite.lo/index.php as well. So does http://mysite.lo/index.php/welcome.
But http://mysite.lo/welcome doesn't.
http://localhost/mysite/www/welcome works as expected.
edit:
I want to move system and application out of the web root.
So my file structure looks like this:
application/
system/
www/
'- index.php
In index.php I changed the paths to system and application folder, of course.

Answer 1

Sounds like you're having rewritemod/htaccess issues rather than VirtualHost issues. Have you made sure that you've got a block such as
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName mysite.lo
<Directory /home/tilman/Sites/mysite>
AllowOverride All
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
somewhere within your config files? The fact that /index.php and /index.php/welcome work, tell me that it's the rewrite mod that's not functioning...

Answer 2

In your virtual host, do you not need this?
<VirtualHost 127.0.0.1>
DocumentRoot /home/tilman/Sites/mysite
ServerName mysite.lo
</VirtualHost>
I'm not sure you needed the www portion.