Cannot create a controller in Magento - magento

I'm a beginning Magento programmer. I used to access the backend as localhost/magento/admin and everything was working fine on WAMP. I could access any route I set up in config.xml as localhost/magento/(frontName) and my controllers were working fine.
Then I was trying to get Zend Debugger working with Eclipse, and in the process I fiddled with things, reinstalled WAMP and Magento a couple of times, installed Zend Server CE and later removed it, and MAYBE fiddled with some settings - don't remember exactly what I changed.
Ultimately, I'm back on WAMP, but now localhost/magento/admin is broken and the backend must be accessed as localhost/magento/index.php/admin, which is ugly. Also, I can't get any routes working. localhost/magento/(frontName) is broken, localhost/magento/index.php/(frontName) gives a 404 error within Magento.
I've been trying to fix this for nearly 2 days now; I'd be grateful for any help. Sorry about the n00b question.

And you are sure the mod rewrite is enabled? Can you get to the frontend at all? do you have sample data installed can you get to any products or categories?

you probably didn't understand very well how works exactly the config.xml in your controller. look at http://www.pierrefay.com/magento-create-controller-36
good luck

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I've been looking for several days now and the problem is stil there.
I'm running the following version of Magento :1.9.0.1
I do not experience any particular problem on local (using Mamp). But on my production server my cart page (beginning of the checkout process) is always empty no matter the number of items i try to add inside my cart.
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(Ps: English is not my main language so i'm sorry for the poor syntaxe).
Are you able to login to the site?
Just check in the backend. System->Configuration->Web->Session cookie management
Whether there is a wrong value set for cookie domain
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I know that that similar issues and topics exist, however my issue differs slightly and none of the proposed fixes have worked.
I was accessing the Magento backend as normal. Approximately 10 minutes after that I could no longer access the Magento backend.
What I mean is that when I go to the admin url login page, I get a 404. However the 404 isn't generated by my host, it's generated by my webstore.
Everything about my webstore works as normal.
I've seen a number of fixes, mainly this one...
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I tried updating the local.xml file and clearing "var/caches" and "var/sessions" but that did not work either.
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First Check your Apache configurations
I know that you said you were only in the Magento admin but I would first check that apache was configured correctly. This is the first point of contact and you need to ensure that it's working right.
You need to locate a default Magento htaccess file that you can upload to your server. There's additional configurations that you need to make if you're in a subdirectory and also check to make sure that your mod_rewrite is working properly. There's an extensive tutorial on these things here, magento htaccess.
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Specs:
Magento 1.7.0.2
Apache version 2.2.22
PHP version 5.3.10
MySQL version 5.1.65-cll
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Ensure you made the correct database setting changes in the configuration.php
Ensure you server is running PHP 5.2+
Make sure your MySQL version is arounf 5.0+ but also not too high such as 5.5.24 this can cause some problems with depreciated functions.
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