Need help getting basic CodeIgnitor installation to work

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Hi all;

I've been a developer for 15+ years but setting up CodeIgniter is baffling me and I can't figure out what I'm missing in the setup.

I actually posted a question on ServerFault.com trying to figure this out: http://serverfault.com/questions/447631/...-windows-7

I'm sure there is a simple config setting either in Apache or CodeIgniter that I need to set but it isn't very clear, or I am really dumb.

In short I have XAMPP installed just fine, I "installed" (e.g. unzipped) CodeIgniter into my C:\xampp\htdocs\CodeIgniter folder.

I created a header.php/footer.php template, home.php and about.php, my pages.php controller, but I can't get any content of any kind from CodeIgniter to render in my browser when I access the suggested URL's.

Did I mess my setup? Or is there a simple config item I need to set to get Apache to route requests to CodeIgniter?