title: Laravel htaccess
body: <p>I've setup a new install of Laravel on my local. It appears there are issues with htaccess or Apache settings. I've researched for a number of hours and tried everything I read. </p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>OSX Lion 10.7.5 </li>
  <li>MAMP 3.0.5 </li>
  <li>PHP 5.5.10</li>
  <li>mod_rewrite is being loaded.</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>My development server works with other sites. This is the first time I am trying Laravel 4.</p>
  
  <p>I get a 403 Forbidden on the welcome page which is located at website.dev:8888/</p>
  
  <p>Apache gives me this error: Directory index forbidden by Options directive</p>
  
  <p>Here is my .htaccess file content:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;IfModule mod_rewrite.c&gt;
      &lt;IfModule mod_negotiation.c&gt;
          Options -MultiViews
      &lt;/IfModule&gt;
  
      RewriteEngine On
  
      # Redirect Trailing Slashes...
      RewriteRule ^(.*)/$ /$1 [L,R=301]
  
      # Handle Front Controller...
      RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
      RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
      RewriteRule ^ index.php [L]
  &lt;/IfModule&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Here are a few additional actions I've taken: </p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>AllowOverride is set to All in httpd.conf</li>
  <li>Added virtual host code section to httpd-vhosts.conf</li>
  <li>verified that the hosts file contains a line for the site 127.0.0.1 website.dev</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>I've also tried various lines in the htaccess which I found in articles and I also restarted apache each time I made changes to the conf files. No routes work. When I go to website.dev:8888/public I get a blank page, no error. If I go to a route I created such as website.dev:8888/users I get a 404 not found error.</p>
  
  <p>Thank you for your help!</p>