question one: how to create a .htaccess file
answer. wordpress.org/support/topic/8483 as well as… wordpress.org/support/topic/10747. Everything you need to know is there, until someone else provides a more update answer…
question two: how to change the chmod for .htaccess?
answer. You’ll need a FTP program to change ANY file re-write abilities. I use Smart FTP it’s free otherwise, Codex lists a group of them at: codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Backups
If you have a FTP program running, just highlight the selected file you want to change, right click and a drop down list is generated. In that drop down list is properties/CHMOD. Click. Then you are offered variables for re-write rules. If you read the support links above, there is information on the different permissions you can use.
Hope this helps.
Bruce, you’re running this on a locally installed server, right? Apache…. on windows xp? on Mac OSX? on linux?
Right now, I have XAMPP from apachefriends.org installed locally. I have mod_rewrite module activated through httpd.conf. In my root wp folders I have .htaccess, with the same stuff in the file that’s in the “matching” online install.
If you’re on windows, you don’t chmod. If you’re on Mac, I haven’t a clue (others here will know). If you’re on linux, I’m not sure how you’d chmod locally, because even though I’ve a linux drive as well, I haven’t got round to setting this sort of stuff up on it yet.
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brucex
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Thanks Katie1 and vkaryl I’ve just got up and sitting here in dressing gown. Ok vkaryl I’m on Apache 2 on windows fat32 so all I need to do is find my httd.config and activate the mod_rewrite module (which comes with Apache?) I don’t have .htaccess anywhere (Isearched the whole disc) So I create that as per instructions from the link given by Katie1 and put that in the root wp folder without having to chmod it? yes
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Bruce
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brucex
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OK now I’ve got the .htaccess file and can edit it in the files editor. what do I edit? 2: when I click on the page, say-try again- it just goes to an error saying requested URL /wordpress/try-again/ was not found on this server. whats going wrong here then? please someone help. I’ve got the wp folder in htdocs of apache and whenever I access wordpress/index.php thats ok but somehow I keep getting the main index of wordpress folders and files and have to access the the relevant index.php from there.
