Mod Rewrite not working for me

[eluser]jt`[/eluser]
Hello, I've done all of the steps listed on the CI Wiki (http://codeigniter.com/wiki/mod_rewrite/) and I'm successfully able to pull up the default controller and view by simply typing in the server IP address.

So, this works: http://12.34.56.78/ (pulls up my index page fine)
However, this does NOT: http://12.34.56.78/images/smiley.gif (404 not found)

My configuration looks like this:

/var/www/... <-- everything is contained within this folder, see below
index.php
system/
images/
js/
css/

CodeIgniter is installed in system/, so:
/var/www/system/application/

Any idea why I can't open smiley.gif from the images/ folder when typing in http://12.34.56.78/images/smiley.gif ?

Thanks :cheese:

Jared