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

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.