calciumwasteI'm trying to change the permalinks on one of my blogs. When I do so, it tells me to update my .htaccess file:
If your .htaccess file were writable, we could do this automatically, but it isn’t so these are the mod_rewrite rules you should have in your .htaccess file. Click in the field and press CTRL + a to select all.
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
My current .htaccess file is blank (just # BEGIN WordPress and # END WordPress). When I added in the lines of code it told me to, every page on my blog including the admin panel was giving me a 500 Internal Server Error. So I reuploaded the blank file, changed the permissions to 777, and tried to change the links again, but I get the same error about .htaccess not being writable.
How can I make .htaccess writable? or how can I edit it myself without destroying everything?
