mac hides .htaccess files

hi everybody.

i have written a .htaccess file to redirect from a page in my website to another website and it worked. i had a problem at first and wanted to hear advice –
when i have created the file and saved it in a folder on my mac – it disappeared. i think mac simply hides this kind of files from you.

in the end i saved it with another name and extension – called it access.php – and changed it after uploading to the website.

anyone ever dealt with such a thing? is there a way to make my mac show these files, or a way to track the .htaccess file which i have created, and is probably still saved in that folder?