mod-rewrite problem in codeigniter - .htaccess

Question

I'm developing a site on my localhost (Usbwebserver application). I'm using CodeIgniter framework:
url is "http://localhost/daniel/index.php"
with the following options:
config/routs:
$route['default_controller'] = "site";
config/config:
$config['base_url'] = "http://localhost/daniel";
$config['index_page'] = "";
$config['uri_protocol'] = "REQUEST_URI";
I've tried the following .htaccess code:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
#Removes access to the system folder by users.
#Additionally this will allow you to create a System.php controller,
#previously this would not have been possible.
#'system' can be replaced if you have renamed your system folder.
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^system.*
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php?/$1 [L]
#Checks to see if the user is attempting to access a valid file,
#such as an image or css document, if this isn't true it sends the
#request to index.php
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?/$1 [L]
# 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
I want to remove index.php and to load my default controller with http://localhost/daniel.
Any suggestions?

Answer 1

Try:
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /daniel/index.php?/$1 [L]

Answer 2

I used the hataccess from the codigniter wiki(the same that I had above):
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
# Removes the "/" at the end
RewriteRule (.+)/$ /$1 [L,R]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^system.*
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php?/$1 [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ daniel/index.php?/$1 [L]
# 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
With all the same option, only $config['uri_protocol'] = "AUTO"(instead of URI_PROTOCOL) and somehow it began to work (and I have the aplication folder outside of the system folder)
Thank You all who kindly replied me!