This should tell you everything you need to know . . .
http://www.freewebmasterhelp.com/tutorials/htaccess/
That doesn’t help me… I know what a .htaccess file is, I know what it can do and I’ve written dozens of them to do different things.
This plugin (wp-dbmanager) states to put an htaccess file in one of it’s install folders but it says NOTHING about what the purpose of that file is or why it needs to be put there nor is an htaccess file included with the install files.
I have no idea if it needs to use the file for redirection, rewriting, protection, or anything else.
Perhaps you should contact the author of the plugin. Or put an empty file in and see if it gets written to by the install.
When did we stop doing things because of “directions”? :^)
thanks, I’ll try putting an empty one in the specified folder…
This form here is the only place I can contact the author AFAIK. this post shows up on the plugin page because of the tag so I was hoping I would get his attention by posting this question here.
I totally missed that, thanks…
it would seem that I’m not the first person to ask about this either.
Apparently the WordPress Repo strips out the .htaccess files, so you have to recreate it with
<Files ~ ".*\..*">
order allow,deny
deny from all
</Files>
