i have set up a local EzPUblish 5 installation, and it seems to work, with one exception: friendly URLs.
When I go to http://arabia.local/index.php/Frontpage, it works, but if I go to http://arabia.local/Frontpage, it tells me 404 not found.
I did some research already; I copied the .htaccess_root to .htaccess, I set the ForceVirtualHost=true in site.ini, I checked in my httpd.conf that AllowOverride All is set - I am running out of ideas here.