I am trying to setup a local environment on my Windows 10 machine (to knock out some overtime) but keep running into a problem. Let me start with my environment workflow on Mac OSX... I have developed many sites locally over the years using MAMP Pro, allowing me to have a host for each project. However, at home I have just recently switched to the Windows environment. I downloaded MAMP Pro for Windows (which is identical at least in UI) and setup everything. I worked for a bit just fine, but didn't notice until now, that if you try to go to any other page but the home page, I get a 403 Forbidden Error. I can even kick start this error by saving permalinks (renders the entire host/site as a 403, nothing works.)

The only way I can get the site to appear again is to remove everything from the `.htaccess` file. Then I have the homepage again (admin works fine) but thats it. When I save permalinks this is what it produces in the `.htaccess` file:

```
# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress

```

I feel like my question might be kind of broad, but what could the issue be here? Is it permissions? I feel pretty well versed in in servers/unix/permissions but throwing Windows into the picture gets me hung up. I'm also using Cmder for a command line tool.