$_POST and $this->input->post() are always empty on localhost site

Code:

<h2>&lt;?php echo lang('user_login_header') ?&gt;</h2>



&lt;?php echo form_open('users/login', array('id'=>'login')); ?&gt;

&lt;?php if (validation_errors()): ?&gt;

    <div class="error-box">&lt;?php echo validation_errors();?&gt;</div>

&lt;?php endif; ?&gt;

    

<ul class="reset">    



<li class="field">

    <label for="email">&lt;?php echo lang('user_email')?&gt;</label>

    &lt;input type="text" name="email" maxlength="120" value="&lt;?php echo $user_data-&gt;email; ?&gt;" />

</li>



<li class="field">

    <label for="password">&lt;?php echo lang('user_password')?&gt;</label>

    &lt;input type="password" name="password" maxlength="20" value="&lt;?php echo $user_data-&gt;password; ?&gt;" />

</li>



<li class="field checkboxes">

    &lt;?php echo form_checkbox('remember', '1', FALSE, 'class="checkbox"'); ?&gt; <label for="remember">&lt;?php echo lang('user_remember')?&gt;</label>

</li>

</ul>



<div class="buttons">

    &lt;input class="submit" type="submit" value="&lt;?php echo lang('user_login_btn') ?&gt;" name="btnLogin" /&gt;

</div>

    

&lt;?php echo form_close(); ?&gt;



<p>&lt;?php echo anchor('users/reset_pass', lang('user_reset_password_link'));?&gt; | &lt;?php echo anchor('register', lang('user_register_btn'));?&gt;</p>

Code:

public function login()

    {



        // Get the user data

        $user_data = (object) array(

            'email' => $this->input->post('email'),

            'password' => $this->input->post('password')

        );

        

        // Validation rules

        $this->validation_rules = array(

            array(

                'field' => 'email',

                'label' => lang('user_email_label'),

                'rules' => 'required|trim|callback__check_login'

            ),

            array(

                'field' => 'password',

                'label' => lang('user_password_label'),

                'rules' => 'required|min_length[6]|max_length[20]'

            ),

        );



        // Set the validation rules

        $this->form_validation->set_rules($this->validation_rules);

        

        // Set the redirect page as soon as they get to login

        if(!$this->session->userdata('redirect_to'))

        {

            $uri = parse_url($this->input->server('HTTP_REFERER'), PHP_URL_PATH);



            // If iwe aren't being redirected from the userl ogin page

            $root_uri = BASE_URI == '/' ? '' : BASE_URI;

            strpos($uri, '/users/login') !== FALSE || $this->session->set_userdata('redirect_to', str_replace($root_uri, '', $uri));

        }

        

        // If the validation worked, or the user is already logged in

        if ($this->form_validation->run() or $this->ion_auth->logged_in())

        {

            $redirect_to = $this->session->userdata('redirect_to')

                ? $this->session->userdata('redirect_to')

                : ''; // Home



            $this->session->unset_userdata('redirect_to');



            // Call post login hook

            $this->hooks->_call_hook('post_user_login');



            // Redirect the user

            redirect($redirect_to);

        }



        // Render the view

        $this->data->sBodyClass = 'one-col';

        $this->data->user_data =& $user_data;

        $this->template->build('login', $this->data);

    }

Code:

php_value upload_max_filesize 32M

php_value post_max_size 32M

php_value max_execution_time 200

# Error Logging

php_flag display_errors on 

php_value error_reporting 9



<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>



    Options +FollowSymLinks

    RewriteEngine on



    # NOTICE: If you get a 404 play with combinations of the following commented out lines

    

    #RewriteBase /wherever/pyro/is



    # Keep people out of codeigniter directory and Git/Mercurial data

    RedirectMatch 403 ^/(application\/cache|codeigniter|\.git|\.hg).*$



    # Send request via index.php (again, not if its a real file or folder)

    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f

    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d



    <IfModule mod_php5.c>

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

    </IfModule>



    <IfModule !mod_php5.c>

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

    </IfModule>



</IfModule>