<p>Well, this was easy in the older version of MAMP that I had. You would just drop them in place, and they worked. I was having a problem with something, so I thought maybe there was an updated version of MAMP that would solve the problem. Sure enough, there was. So I installed it and went along my way. Then, I went back to the local version of my site, and it was completely busted.</p>

<p>I finally tracked it down to .htaccess files being ignored. So I opened up my <em>http.conf</em> file and went down to line 378, and sure enough this is what I saw:</p>

<pre><code>&lt;Directory /&gt;
    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
    AllowOverride None
&lt;/Directory&gt;</code></pre>

<p>In the older version of MAMP that I had, the default for this value was <em>All</em>. In order to get .htaccess files working in the new version, I just had to change <em>None</em> to <em>All</em>, restart the server, and everything worked normally. Just thought I would share in case anyone else runs into this problem.</p>