404 Not Found - sure it's simple but can't figure it out

[eluser]Chad Fulton[/eluser]
It's your .htaccess which is wrong, I think.

Your RewriteRule has /index.php/$1, which makes it look in your base directory (http://localhost/) for the index.php file, which I suppose is not there. Remove the first / to make it look in the current directory rather than the document root.

You can do:

Code:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php|images|captcha|css|js|robots\.txt)
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/$1 [L]