Re: The requested URL /groups/ was not found on this server.
You wrote: But what I am ever going to do with it? in reference to your .htaccess file
You don’t do anything with the file the server does. The server must be able to write to the file to make any changes required automatically.
Have you tried going to the permalinks menu in the dashboard and set it to anything other than default, just change to day/month and save and tell us what the screen says , if there are any messages about not being able to write to the file or whether it simply kicks things into life.
I also note that your base is not ‘/’ root but ‘/wordpress/’ which may not help matters I presume you simply installed into the MAMP? web sites directory, it would be worth reading up on how to configure vhost containers and simple host file dev domains so you can run a site as a make believe top level domain.
