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1. shepherdjim
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   I'm prepping to take our WP/Atahualpa-themed site "live" -- it's been running in the /www.Hatchtown.com/wp/ subdirectory while our old site has been out front at /www.Hatchtown.com/index.html. I guess what I'm going to do is to make the WP file index.php what visitors load when they come to the site. If anyone has any hints, thoughts or suggestions about this whole process I'll greatly appreciate hearing them!!

   Anyway, one of the instruction steps reads:

   7. Copy the index.php and .htaccess files from the WordPress directory into the root directory of your site (Blog address).

   There is NO .htaccess file in my /wp/ directory OR any of its sub-directories.

   I did a search and found 12 .htaccess files Ten of them are in various /Zencart/ directories -- I haven't even activated the Zencart plugin so am fairly sure that none of those .htaccess files are of interest at this point.

   The other two instances of .htaccess are in the /_db_backups/ and /stats/ subdirectories of the main directory. The one in /stats/ has not been modified since 1/22/2009 while the one in /_db_backups/ was modified more recently on 3/11/2009.

   Which .htaccess should I be copying into the root directory -- oh, and I just noticed that it says "copy" and not "move" -- I'm glad of that! I'm pretty sure I was going to move it. whew!

2. Samuel B
   moderator
   Posted 3 years ago #

   you may need to set your ftp client to "show hidden files" to see the .htaccess

   If you really don't have one where wordpress is installed - don't sweat it - just do all else as normal and when finished set your permalinks
   admin - settings - permalinks
   this should generate the .htaccess for you.

3. shepherdjim
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Thanks samboll!

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