title: index.php not found in url of cloned Magento Site on Development server?
body: <p>I have cloned a live Magento 1.5.0.0 site to my development server (windows wamp)</p>
  
  <p>the development server does not have an .htaccess file in the roor directory but i have copied one into my root directory from another magento install? </p>
  
  <p>Every thing seems to be configure ok the database is connected ok, I have set up alias which loads the index.php page ok but the url's do not work , so if i click on the contact us page the server error is: </p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>The requested URL /vhosts/petextra/magento/index.php was not found on this server. </p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>The adress bar url for the same is: <code>http://127.0.0.1/petextra/contact-us/</code>.</p>
  
  <p>If I manualy type in the index.php in the address bar </p>
  
  <pre><code>http://127.0.0.1/petextra/index.php/contact-us/` 
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>then the page loads ok.</p>
  
  <p>Some how the url is not including the <code>index.php</code>?</p>
  
  <p>Has anybody got any ideas why this is happening?</p>