I've install a dev environment on my mac running os x maverick and everything works fine excepted url rewriting.
To be exact, when I go to localhost on the default port, it works.
but when I go to the website folder in terminal and I start apache on the port :8888 using this command:
php -S localhost:8888
then the .htaccess is not read.
I want to work this way in order to have my server logs in the terminal.
What is the problem?
This is my httpd.conf file:
ServerRoot "/usr"
    Listen 80
    LoadModule authn_file_module libexec/apache2/mod_authn_file.so
    LoadModule authn_dbm_module libexec/apache2/mod_authn_dbm.so
    LoadModule authn_anon_module libexec/apache2/mod_authn_anon.so
    LoadModule authn_dbd_module libexec/apache2/mod_authn_dbd.so
    LoadModule authn_default_module libexec/apache2/mod_authn_default.so
    LoadModule authz_host_module libexec/apache2/mod_authz_host.so
    LoadModule authz_groupfile_module libexec/apache2/mod_authz_groupfile.so
    LoadModule authz_user_module libexec/apache2/mod_authz_user.so
    LoadModule authz_dbm_module libexec/apache2/mod_authz_dbm.so
    LoadModule authz_owner_module libexec/apache2/mod_authz_owner.so
    LoadModule authz_default_module libexec/apache2/mod_authz_default.so
    LoadModule auth_basic_module libexec/apache2/mod_auth_basic.so
    LoadModule auth_digest_module libexec/apache2/mod_auth_digest.so
    LoadModule cache_module libexec/apache2/mod_cache.so
    LoadModule disk_cache_module libexec/apache2/mod_disk_cache.so
    LoadModule mem_cache_module libexec/apache2/mod_mem_cache.so
    LoadModule dbd_module libexec/apache2/mod_dbd.so
    LoadModule dumpio_module libexec/apache2/mod_dumpio.so
    LoadModule reqtimeout_module libexec/apache2/mod_reqtimeout.so
    LoadModule ext_filter_module libexec/apache2/mod_ext_filter.so
    LoadModule include_module libexec/apache2/mod_include.so
    LoadModule filter_module libexec/apache2/mod_filter.so
    LoadModule substitute_module libexec/apache2/mod_substitute.so
    LoadModule deflate_module libexec/apache2/mod_deflate.so
    LoadModule log_config_module libexec/apache2/mod_log_config.so
    LoadModule log_forensic_module libexec/apache2/mod_log_forensic.so
    LoadModule logio_module libexec/apache2/mod_logio.so
    LoadModule env_module libexec/apache2/mod_env.so
    LoadModule mime_magic_module libexec/apache2/mod_mime_magic.so
    LoadModule cern_meta_module libexec/apache2/mod_cern_meta.so
    LoadModule expires_module libexec/apache2/mod_expires.so
    LoadModule headers_module libexec/apache2/mod_headers.so
    LoadModule ident_module libexec/apache2/mod_ident.so
    LoadModule usertrack_module libexec/apache2/mod_usertrack.so
    #LoadModule unique_id_module libexec/apache2/mod_unique_id.so
    LoadModule setenvif_module libexec/apache2/mod_setenvif.so
    LoadModule version_module libexec/apache2/mod_version.so
    LoadModule proxy_module libexec/apache2/mod_proxy.so
    LoadModule proxy_connect_module libexec/apache2/mod_proxy_connect.so
    LoadModule proxy_ftp_module libexec/apache2/mod_proxy_ftp.so
    LoadModule proxy_http_module libexec/apache2/mod_proxy_http.so
    LoadModule proxy_scgi_module libexec/apache2/mod_proxy_scgi.so
    LoadModule proxy_ajp_module libexec/apache2/mod_proxy_ajp.so
    LoadModule proxy_balancer_module libexec/apache2/mod_proxy_balancer.so
    LoadModule ssl_module libexec/apache2/mod_ssl.so
    LoadModule mime_module libexec/apache2/mod_mime.so
    LoadModule dav_module libexec/apache2/mod_dav.so
    LoadModule status_module libexec/apache2/mod_status.so
    LoadModule autoindex_module libexec/apache2/mod_autoindex.so
    LoadModule asis_module libexec/apache2/mod_asis.so
    LoadModule info_module libexec/apache2/mod_info.so
    LoadModule cgi_module libexec/apache2/mod_cgi.so
    LoadModule dav_fs_module libexec/apache2/mod_dav_fs.so
    LoadModule vhost_alias_module libexec/apache2/mod_vhost_alias.so
    LoadModule negotiation_module libexec/apache2/mod_negotiation.so
    LoadModule dir_module libexec/apache2/mod_dir.so
    LoadModule imagemap_module libexec/apache2/mod_imagemap.so
    LoadModule actions_module libexec/apache2/mod_actions.so
    LoadModule speling_module libexec/apache2/mod_speling.so
    LoadModule userdir_module libexec/apache2/mod_userdir.so
    LoadModule alias_module libexec/apache2/mod_alias.so
    LoadModule rewrite_module libexec/apache2/mod_rewrite.so
    #LoadModule perl_module libexec/apache2/mod_perl.so
    LoadModule php5_module libexec/apache2/libphp5.so
    LoadModule hfs_apple_module libexec/apache2/mod_hfs_apple.so
    <IfModule !mpm_netware_module>
    <IfModule !mpm_winnt_module>
    User _www
    Group _www
    </IfModule>
    </IfModule>
    ServerAdmin you@example.com
    DocumentRoot "/Library/WebServer/apachesites"
    <Directory />
        Options FollowSymLinks
        AllowOverride all
        Order deny,allow
        Deny from all
    </Directory>
    <Directory "/Library/WebServer/apachesites">
        Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
        AllowOverride All
        Order allow,deny
        Allow from all
    </Directory>
    <IfModule dir_module>
        DirectoryIndex index.html
    </IfModule>
    <FilesMatch "^\.([Hh][Tt]|[Dd][Ss]_[Ss])">
        Order allow,deny
        Deny from all
        Satisfy All
    </FilesMatch>
    <Files "rsrc">
        Order allow,deny
        Deny from all
        Satisfy All
    </Files>
    <DirectoryMatch ".*\.\.namedfork">
        Order allow,deny
        Deny from all
        Satisfy All
    </DirectoryMatch>
    ErrorLog "/private/var/log/apache2/error_log"
    LogLevel warn
    <IfModule log_config_module>
        LogFormat "%h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %b \"%{Referer}i\" \"%{User-Agent}i\"" combined
        LogFormat "%h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %b" common
        <IfModule logio_module>
          # You need to enable mod_logio.c to use %I and %O
          LogFormat "%h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %b \"%{Referer}i\" \"%{User-Agent}i\" %I %O" combinedio
        </IfModule>
        CustomLog "/private/var/log/apache2/access_log" common
    </IfModule>
    <IfModule alias_module>
        ScriptAliasMatch ^/cgi-bin/((?!(?i:webobjects)).*$) "/Library/WebServer/CGI-Executables/$1"
    </IfModule>
    <IfModule cgid_module>
    </IfModule>
    <Directory "/Library/WebServer/CGI-Executables">
        AllowOverride None
        Options None
        Order allow,deny
        Allow from all
    </Directory>
    DefaultType text/plain
    <IfModule mime_module>
        TypesConfig /private/etc/apache2/mime.types
        AddType application/x-compress .Z
        AddType application/x-gzip .gz .tgz
    </IfModule>
    TraceEnable off
    Include /private/etc/apache2/extra/httpd-mpm.conf
    Include /private/etc/apache2/extra/httpd-autoindex.conf
    Include /private/etc/apache2/extra/httpd-languages.conf
    Include /private/etc/apache2/extra/httpd-userdir.conf
    Include /private/etc/apache2/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf
    Include /private/etc/apache2/extra/httpd-manual.conf
    <IfModule ssl_module>
    SSLRandomSeed startup builtin
    SSLRandomSeed connect builtin
    </IfModule>
    Include /private/etc/apache2/other/*.conf
And this is httpd-vhosts.conf
NameVirtualHost *:80
<VirtualHost *:80>
    DocumentRoot "/Library/WebServer/apachesites"
    ErrorLog "/private/var/log/apache2/dummy-host.example.com-error_log"
    CustomLog "/private/var/log/apache2/dummy-host.example.com-access_log" common
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:8888>
    DocumentRoot "/Library/WebServer/apachesites"
    ErrorLog "/private/var/log/apache2/dummy-host.example.com-error_log"
    CustomLog "/private/var/log/apache2/dummy-host.example.com-access_log" common
</VirtualHost>
 
    