Installing Magento on Mac does not show sample site on localhost

[raducarayaf64f]

Hello all 

I am struggling with the installation of Magento 2 on a macbook pro (macOS Monterey 12.3.1).

I installed MAMP (works fine - no error in the logs when starting the server); the sql database gets populated by magento installation  (for instance, I can see the baseurl in "core_config_data").

When accessing the baseurl ("http://localhost/magento2/"), nothing is shown in chrome or safari - "the requested url was not found on this server".

I have tried tons of suggested fixes, but none has worked for me.

Please let me know what more information you need to get a clearer picture what's happening on my end.

[raducarayaf64f]

LE: Playing around with the .htaccess (in magento2 folder) i get the following:

Diving further into the directories:

Let mw know what else shall I try.

Thanks!