.htaccess crashed my site

  • jchapline

    (@jchapline)


    11 years, 4 months ago

    Hello,

    I am new to all of this and am working on a new site for a client. I have set up a staging directory using FileZilla. So when you go to “examplesite.com/staging” you are prompted to login before you can see the site I am working on.I was trying to get the permalinks to display “examplesite.com/staging/page” instead of “examplesite.com/staging/index.php/page” (I must have accidentally set it to the later when I was setting it all up and didn’t realize it)

    When I went to change this in the template under settings, I get this message:
    “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.”

    At the time I didn’t know what this was since I had already changed the permalink once when I set this all up, and I couldn’t find the .htaccess file on FileZilla. I read a few posts and one said to “Upload a blank document, and in FileZilla change the name to .htaccess, also make sure permissions are 655 or higher”

    I did this, and went back to my site only to find a 500 error page… I went back to FileZilla and can’t find the .htaccess file!!!! I have done the Server>Force Showing to show hidden files, I even searched for it and can’t find it anywhere (I did find two under the plugins “akismet” and “woocommerce” but assume they are specific to thos plugins)

    Did I somehow delete my .htaccess file??? How do I get this site back up and running???

    Please help.

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  • Thread Starter jchapline

    (@jchapline)

    11 years, 4 months ago

    UPDATE:

    I can now magically see my .htaccess file on filezilla but site is still down…

    Thread Starter jchapline

    (@jchapline)

    11 years, 4 months ago

    UPDATE:

    I deleted the .htaccess file from server and site is working again which is great…

    However, I didn’t solve original permalink issue.

    I would like it to be “examplesite.com/page”
    It is currently “examplesite.com/index.php/page”

    I tried changing this in WordPress under Settings>Permalink. I had to use Custom Structure option and had /%postname%/ in the box.

    I still receive this error :
    “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.”

    I tried copying and pasting the code that was provided into a .htaccess file and uploading it to the root folder of my site in wordpress but it crashed my site again… am I missing something??

    jack randall

    (@theotherlebowski)

    11 years, 4 months ago

    does your installation currently have a .htaccess?

    if it does make sure the permissions are set to 0644 and see if that makes a difference.

    Thread Starter jchapline

    (@jchapline)

    11 years, 4 months ago

    Thanks Jack,

    I don’t believe it does. I can’t locate it on the ftp. Do you know where it might be living? I’m working in WordPress 4.0.1

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