CodeIgniter 1.7.2 + XAMPP 1.7.3 + .htacess problems

[eluser]Mini0n[/eluser]
Can anyone help me on this?
I've done everything stated on this thread, and got no success...
CodeIgniter 1.7.2 @ Windows 7 with XAMPP 1.7.3.

http://localhost/ci/ - Works
http://localhost/ci/index.php - Works
http://localhost/ci/index.php/demo - Works
http://localhost/ci/demo - The page redirects to http://localhost/xampp

The .htaccess file is located at htdocs/ci/.htaccess and contains:

Code:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.so>
    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteBase /ci/

    #Removes access to the system folder by users.
    #Additionally this will allow you to create a System.php controller,
    #previously this would not have been possible.
    #'system' can be replaced if you have renamed your system folder.
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^system.*
    RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php?/$1 [L]
    
    #When your application folder isn't in the system folder
    #This snippet prevents user access to the application folder
    #Submitted by: Fabdrol
    #Rename 'application' to your applications folder name.
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^application.*
    RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php?/$1 [L]

    #Checks to see if the user is attempting to access a valid file,
    #such as an image or css document, if this isn't true it sends the
    #request to index.php
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?/$1 [L]
</IfModule>

<IfModule !mod_rewrite.so>
    # If we don't have mod_rewrite installed, all 404's
    # can be sent to index.php, and everything works as normal.
    # Submitted by: ElliotHaughin

    ErrorDocument 404 /index.php
</IfModule>

And on the CI's config.php:

Code:

$config['index_page'] = "";

Code:

$config['uri_protocol']    = "AUTO";

This doesn't work even if it's REQUEST_URI



What am I missing?


Thanks.