Cant call any controllers !!!

[eluser]Unknown[/eluser]
Hello,

I a new to code Codeigniter, I am writing my first app and I am having problem with anchors calling controllers. The app initially loads correctly but any anchor/request to controller, returns Object not found 404.

I am running Xampp, the newest version on windows 7 64bits, i am also running the newest version of Codeigniter.

My site is called ignite2 (htdocs/ignite2)

I added an Apache Alias for it :

Alias /ignite2 "D:/xampp/xampp/htdocs/ignite2/"
<Directory "D:/xampp/xampp/htdocs/ignite2">
AllowOverride AuthConfig
</Directory>

my CI config base url :
$config['base_url'] = "http://localhost/ignite2/";
$config['index_page'] = "";


my anchors : <li>&lt;?php echo anchor("welcome/index","Classifieds");?&gt;</li>


Can someone please tell me what is wrong with my configuration, must be the application context conflict between CI and Apache..