As with all of my questions it seems, I have found an answer!
I managed to get everything working smoothly by adding the following to my /private/etc/apache2/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf
file inside of the <VirtualHost *:80>
that was setup for local.dev
<Directory "/www/local/public">
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
So the overall vhosts config for local.dev
would look like the following:
<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot "/www/local/public"
ServerName local.dev
<Directory "/www/local/public">
... Above code here ...
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
I added this, then restarted apache, and everything worked smoothly.