How to get htaccess to work on MAMP

Question

I am trying to get the .htaccess working in MAMP.

The content of the .htaccess is a simple redirect line but it does not work. I am trying

Answer 1

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 ...

    ServerName ...
    DocumentRoot /....

To this:

    ServerAdmin ...
    ServerName ...

    DocumentRoot ...
    
        Options FollowSymLinks
        AllowOverride None
    
    
        Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
        AllowOverride All
        Order allow,deny
        allow from all