I am running MAMP on my local machine and have checked test_rewrite which says it is indeed set. I then set K_PRETTY_URLS to 1 on the config.php file and then went to gen_access.php to get the code to add to .htaccess which I did. But now after doing all of that, it does seem to try to get the correct 'pretty' URL, for example http://localhost:8888/winklet1/gallery/ but it shows up as a page not found error: The requested URL /gallery.php was not found on this server.

Why is this happening? As far as I can tell, I've done all the required steps and checks to get this working. Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!

Just shortly after posting this, I found the cause of the issue. Maybe it will be useful to share in case others have the same problem. Because I'm developing sites locally, I've got each one in a subfolder under localhost. So near the beginning of the .htaccess file I had to add the folder name after RewriteBase /

(ex: RewriteBase/winklet1)

That fixed it.

[trendoman]

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