What's the plan for any uris generated in the local environment related to an online site? Ie. Will that site have the same sub-folder structure, will it be another directory name, or is neither of that a factor?Ask because can possibly provide a local "only" solution or one that supports moving this htaccess elsewhere. Mind you, the instructions recommend that the htaccess be placed in the root of the domain (paraphrasing) such that it would have been expected to be at localhost not localhost/store_name from the web-facing address.