How to get htaccess to work on MAMP

Question

1. In httpd.conf on /Applications/MAMP/conf/apache, find:

   <Directory />
       Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
       AllowOverride None
   </Directory>
   

2. Replace None with All.

3. Restart MAMP servers.

Go to httpd.conf on /Applications/MAMP/conf/apache and see if the LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so line is un-commented (without the # at the beginning)

and change these from ...

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName ...
    DocumentRoot /....
</VirtualHost>

To this:

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerAdmin ...
    ServerName ...

    DocumentRoot ...
    <Directory ...>
        Options FollowSymLinks
        AllowOverride None
    </Directory>
    <Directory ...>
        Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
        AllowOverride All
        Order allow,deny
        allow from all
    </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

I'm using MAMP (downloaded today) and had this problem also. The issue is with this version of the MAMP stack's default httpd.conf directive around line 370. Look at httpd.conf down at around line 370 and you will find:

<Directory "/Applications/MAMP/bin/mamp">
    Options Indexes MultiViews
    AllowOverride None
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
</Directory>

You need to change: AllowOverride None To: AllowOverride All

If you have MAMP PRO you can set up a host like mysite.local, then add some options from the 'Advanced' panel in the main window. Just switch on the options 'Indexes' and 'MultiViews'. 'Includes' and 'FollowSymLinks' should already be checked.

The problem I was having with the rewrite is that some .htaccess files for Codeigniter, etc come with

RewriteBase /

Which doesn't seem to work in MAMP...at least for me.