iPage .htaccess

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Does anyone know of what special tricks are needed with CI 2.0 and iPage?

I have a copy of the site running on my local Ubuntu 10.04 and PHP 5.3.2-1ubuntu4.7 and iPage's Server is at PHP 5.2.17

on my localbox all the urls work just fine; i.e. http://localhost/controller/function

Uploading the same files to the iPage server I must use the index.php reference; i.e. http://mydomain.com/index.php/controller/function

Anyone have any ideas what is different with iPage servers in relation to 2.0?
As a side note, I _do not_ have to rely on index.php references with CI 1.7 on the exact same server.

Thanks
Steven

.htaccess:

# for iPage.com hosting

DirectoryIndex index.php index.html index.htm

ErrorDocument 401 /index.php
ErrorDocument 403 /index.php
ErrorDocument 404 /index.php

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
#Removes access to the system folder by users.
#Additionally this will allow you to create a System.php controller,
#previously this would not have been possible.
#'system' can be replaced if you have renamed your system folder.
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^system.*
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php?/$1 [L]
#When your application folder isn't in the system folder
#This snippet prevents user access to the application folder
#Submitted by: Fabdrol
#Rename 'application' to your applications folder name.
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^application.*
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php?/$1 [L]
#Checks to see if the user is attempting to access a valid file,
#such as an image or css document, if this isn't true it sends the
#request to index.php
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?/$1 [L]
</IfModule>
<IfModule !mod_rewrite.c>
# If we don't have mod_rewrite installed, all 404's
# can be sent to index.php, and everything works as normal.
# Submitted by: ElliotHaughin
ErrorDocument 404 /index.php
</IfModule>