Local Copy pathing

[LRL]

Hi.
I'm building a local copy of my site so I can work through upgrading to 1.11.13 (currently on 1.10.3)
My install went just fine and nearly everything works but...
My paths show up with an extra /index.php/ in the middle (like this - localhost/cms/index.php/clubinfo/contacts.html)

Should I just ignore the /index.php/ as part of the local install?
Or, is there something I should change in .htaccess or config.php

The .htaccess and config.php files are the same as the live version (except for the root_url being http://localhost/cms)
and I'm on a standard Xampp install.

CMSMS Info

Cms Version: 1.10.3

Installed Modules:

CMSMailer: 2.0.2
FileManager: 1.2.0
MenuManager: 1.7.7
ModuleManager: 1.5.3
News: 2.12.3
Printing: 1.1.2
Search: 1.7
ThemeManager: 1.1.4
TinyMCE: 2.9.12
CGExtensions: 1.31
CMSSimplepie: 1.0
SimpleFeedback: 0.3
CGCalendar: 1.10.0.1
Members: 1.1.1
NMS: 2.5.6
OwnersManual: 1.0.2
VisitorStats: 0.2.2
Gallery: 1.6.1
FormBuilder: 0.7.3
FormBrowser: 0.4.2
SEOTools2: 1.0.10
CMSPrinting: 1.0
MicroTiny: 1.1.1
CGJobMgr: 1.2.7

Config Information:

php_memory_limit:
process_whole_template: false
output_compression: false
max_upload_size: 20000000
default_upload_permission: 664
url_rewriting: mod_rewrite
page_extension: .html
query_var: page
image_manipulation_prog: GD
auto_alias_content: true
locale:
default_encoding: utf-8
admin_encoding: utf-8
set_names: true

Php Information:

phpversion: 5.6.3
md5_function: On (True)
gd_version: 2
tempnam_function: On (True)
magic_quotes_runtime: Off (False)
E_STRICT: 0
E_DEPRECATED: 0
memory_limit: 128M
max_execution_time: 30
output_buffering: 4096
safe_mode: Off (False)
file_uploads: On (True)
post_max_size: 20M
upload_max_filesize: 20M
session_save_path: C:\xampp\tmp (0777)
session_use_cookies: On (True)
xml_function: On (True)

Server Information:

Server Api: apache2handler
Server Db Type: MySQL (mysqli)
Server Db Version: 5.6.21

[calguy1000]

When url_rewriting is set to 'internal' you will see URLS like that.
internal rewriting does not require any .htaccess file.

Easiest way to isolate the problem (is it the .htaccess or the config.php) is to look at the URLS actually generated by CMSMS. If they are correct, then the problem is in your .htaccess/apache configuration.