Hostgator routing issue - not solved by REQUEST_URI

[eluser]gypmaster[/eluser]
Hi,

I'm trying a ci install on my hostgator hosting but keep having 404 not found issues. I've searched the forums and gound the stuff about changing the

Code:

$config['uri_protocol']    = "AUTO";

to

Code:

$config['uri_protocol']    = "REQUEST_URI";

still no help though.

Everything sits in a folder called ci on my webhost.

when I type http:www.mydomain.com/ci/ I get the hostgator 404 not found page.

when I type http:www.mydomain.com/ci/index.php I get the ci Page Not found error.

base url is set to

Code:

$config['base_url']    = "http:www.mydomain.com/ci/";

.htaccess is as follows:

Code:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php|images|captcha|css|js|robots\.txt)
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/$1 [L]

anyone know what I'm doing wrong?

P.S. hostgator say they have

AllowOverride All

set by default for Apache config.