Same here. My .htaccess looks exactly the same at the end as @jan’s.
Probably won’t work unless the pretty URL-rewrite part is going to be compatible with fastCGI in a shared hosting environment (i.e. no root access/permissions).
Given the number of other issues open at Github, I understand it’s not a priority issue and probably won’t be dealt with anytime soon, if ever. So there’s little hope.
EDIT: SOLVED
@nikolasdas @Armando_Valencia
Finally, by accident, I seem to have solved this issue: I’ve included 'htaccess.IgnoreFrontController' => true in my config.php.
Then updated the .htaccess file in my web root folder using ./occ maintenance:update:htaccess
That seems to do the trick. Don’t know if it’ll work on your system though (my setup = NC 12.0.1 on a shared CENTOS server, PHP 7). Good luck!