Permalinks on localhost

Hi. I always design my WordPress websites locally and then move it online — just like everyone else, I’d say. My problem is that all my websites use pretty permalinks (/%postname%/), which makes it difficult for me to test them on localhost. I always give full permissions to the .htaccess file, so when I change it on Dashboard ? Settings ? Permalinks, it doesn’t print me any kind of “file permissions” error at all. Obviously, my mod_rewrite module is on. What else should I try to have my pretty permalinks work on localhost?