general problem with CI getting work :(

[eluser]lemonek[/eluser]
To be clear:
1. I dont have any .htaccess
2. I use XAMPP server on Win XP
3. CI is localed at "htdocs\ci\" witch i access as http://localhost/ci/
4. On htdocs\ci i have "system user_guide index.php licence.txt"

Now my problem...:
when i run: http://localhost/ci/ i gets default Welcome screen, but if i create simple controller under \htdocs\ci\system\application\controllers called test.php with content:

<?php
class Test extends Controller
{
function index()
{
echo 'Test CI';
}
}
?>

and run http://localhost/ci/test/ i gets servers default 404 page so i put .htaccess to /ci/ dir (im total noob with htaccess):

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /ci/index.php/$1 [L]

and the i gets:
The URI you submitted has disallowed characters.

in config.php i have:
$config['base_url'] = "http://localhost/ci/";
$config['uri_protocol'] = "AUTO";
$config['permitted_uri_chars'] = 'a-z 0-9~%.:_\-';

[eluser]garycocs[/eluser]
What I did first was to modify the Welcome controller, give that a go first and see how you get on??

[eluser]lemonek[/eluser]
[quote author="garycocs" date="1251686622"]What I did first was to modify the Welcome controller, give that a go first and see how you get on??[/quote]

I dont know what you exacly mean but if i put:
<?php

class Welcome extends Controller {

function Welcome()
{
parent::Controller();
}

function index()
{
echo 'hello';
}
}

into welcome.php when i entering localhost/ci/ i gets hello

but when i entering http://localhost/ci/welcome/ i gets:
The URI you submitted has disallowed characters.

[eluser]garycocs[/eluser]
Bingo, so CI is working and you have changed a page

I think the link should have been:

http://localhost/ci/index.php/Test/

[eluser]lemonek[/eluser]
[quote author="garycocs" date="1251687024"]Bingo, so CI is working and you have changed a page

I think the link should have been:

http://localhost/ci/index.php/Test/[/quote]

not exacly....
http://localhost/ci/index.php/Welcome/
http://localhost/ci/index.php/welcome/
http://localhost/ci/index.php/Welcome
http://localhost/ci/index.php/welcome

and same for test....

it always give me
The URI you submitted has disallowed characters.

[eluser]garycocs[/eluser]
oh ya sorry only saw part of your htacess there, mine looks like this:

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://localhost/ci/index.php/$1 [QSA,L]

[eluser]garycocs[/eluser]
Then the link: http://localhost/ci/Welcome/ should work.

[eluser]lemonek[/eluser]
i put .htaccess to a root-> htdocs

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://localhost/ci/index.php/$1 [QSA,L]

and i gets again The URI you submitted has disallowed characters.

[eluser]jpi[/eluser]
PHP 5.3 compatibility problem. Read this : http://ellislab.com/forums/viewthread/124643/P0/

[eluser]lemonek[/eluser]
will try after windows restart