Views not finding Controllers on lighttpd

[eluser]joe-bbb[/eluser]
I built my site locally running on apache, it works fine.
When transferring to my ubuntu vps running lighttpd, my views do not seem to be loading the controllers or views.
I get a very short snippet of my view printed when i go to http://my-app-address/index.php/myview.
When I view this locally, a full webpage (with header, footer etc.) is shown.

I can select and view from my database fine if i do this all in the view, however, it is clearly not finding the controller or model.

I have a suspicion that this is connected to my uri_protocol line in my config.php though I have tried every variation without any success.

I am not using any mod_rewrite stuff yet.

Thanks in advance