.htaccess doesn't work on localhost, but on live server does (htaccess override is on)

Question

this exact .htaccess works on live server, but not on localhost (shows page with web structure), why?

RewriteEngine On
# RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule !\.(css|js|icon|zip|rar|png|jpg|gif|pdf)$ /public/index.php [L]

This .htaccess works on both:

RewriteEngine On
# RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule !\.(css|js|icon|zip|rar|png|jpg|gif|pdf)$ index.php [L]

I'm doing something wrong, but don't know what, please help me.

Answer 1

Is there a folder /public on localhost ? It seems like this folder only exists on the live-system. Or eventually the DocumentRoot is different.

Anyway, the only difference I see:

/public/index.php

which is an absolute path from DocumentRoot . --> /path/to/DocumentRoot/public/index.php

index.php

which should be a relative path from from DocumentRoot . --> /path/to/DocumentRoot/index.php

Make sure you are rewriting to the correct location.