diff --git a/www-api/public/.htaccess b/www-api/public/.htaccess
index a5d6c2a5..83ffbc6f 100644
--- a/www-api/public/.htaccess
+++ b/www-api/public/.htaccess
@@ -26,6 +26,14 @@ Options All -Indexes
 	RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.(.+)$ [NC]
 	RewriteRule ^ http://%1%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L]
 
+    #Redirect for CORS Preflight request
+    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} OPTIONS
+    RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1 [R=200,L]
+    #Set headers to access CORS Requests / allowing localhost only
+    Header always add Access-Control-Allow-Origin "*"
+    Header always add Access-Control-Allow-Headers "origin, x-requested-with, content-type"
+    Header always add Access-Control-Allow-Methods "PUT, GET, POST, DELETE, OPTIONS"
+
 	# Checks to see if the user is attempting to access a valid file,
 	# such as an image or css document, if this isn't true it sends the
 	# request to the front controller, index.php