.htaccess file is not working on Apache Server

Question

I have hosted my site on www.hostmoster.com, I have written .htaccess file for URL rewritting, it was working properly since last 1 year.. but today they have made some upgrade in their Apache Server.. and now my .htaccess file is not working properly. the contents of my file is

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^$ /index.php [L]
RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php|functions\.php|showpopup\.php|signup\.php|chat|tmp|extras|services|flash|data|images|forum|business|css|scripts|robots\.txt|favicon\.ico)
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php/$1 [L]

Please help me out.. Apache Server version is 2.2.11.. The problem i am facing is that for each of page request it opens the index.php page

Answer 1

Maybe ...

Note:

If you want to call your .htaccess file something else, you can change the name of the file using the AccessFileName directive. For example, if you would rather call the file .config then you can put the following in your server configuration file:

AccessFileName .config

From Apache docs