Today, I started to work again with the fast and small but powerful PHP framework Kohana. I used Kohana 1 on a Linux machine years ago but now it’s Kohana 3.1 on Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard). Anyway, shortly after the successful installation I wanted to get rid of the mentioning of index.php in the URL. I knew about .htaccess and mod_rewrite from my previous Kohana projects. This time the framework even came with a predefined .htaccess file. However, I didn’t get it to work and only got 404 Not Found messages when I activated the .htaccess file.
After some research I figured out that I had to change the None of AllowOverride in */etc/apache2/users/