MAMP.app & .htaccess - Can't override after config

Question

For whatever reason I can't seem to get my .htaccess file to work correctly on a local Wordpress install. What I'm trying to achieve is to have the themes assets paths rewritten as such:

 RewriteRule ^img/(.*)$ wp-content/themes/cashed/img/$1 [L]

The current location to my images folder is:

 wp-content/themes/cashed/img

and I'd like to change it to be

 img/

I've read a few posts about having to configure MAMP to allow for .htaccess files and I feel like I've configured them correctly.

I've edited the file: applications/MAMP/conf/apache/httpd.conf to have the following rules:

 <Directory />
     Options All
     AllowOverride All
     Order allow,deny
     Allow from all 
 </Directory>

I've also restarted MAMP.app as well as my machine many times and for whatever reason I feel that MAMP is ignoring this .htaccess file which is stored in the root directory of my WP install.

Any ideas?

Answer 1

Are you sure your default <Directory /> settings aren't getting overridden somewhere else?

I have mine directly in the vhost and .htaccess and rewrite rules work fine.

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName wp.project
    DocumentRoot "/Users/chris/Sites/wp.project"

    <Directory "/Users/chris/Sites/wp.project">
        Options Indexes Includes FollowSymLinks  
        AllowOverride All
        Order allow,deny
        Allow from all
    </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

Answer 2

Try using RewriteBase in your .htaccess file.

RewriteBase /siteyourworkingon/

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/mod/mod_rewrite.html#rewritebase