Title: Problem with htacess / Permalinks
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Problem with htacess / Permalinks

 *  [kmwald](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kmwald/)
 * (@kmwald)
 * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-htacess-permalinks/)
 * Hello.
 * I tried a dozen times to change the permalink of my post but it just won’t work.
   When i change the structure to ‘post-name’ there will pop-up that i have to make
   my htaccces writable. Sounds easy, right – but nothing changes when i do this.
   The htacces it’s writable but still i can’t change my permalink. This is what
   my htacces tells me:
 * >  {\rtf1\ansi\ansicpg1252\cocoartf1344\cocoasubrtf720
   >  {\fonttbl\f0\fmodern\
   > fcharset0 Courier;\f1\fnil\fcharset0 Monaco;} {\colortbl;\red255\green255\blue255;\
   > red48\green45\blue41;\red239\green244\blue246;} \paperw11900\paperh16840\margl1440\
   > margr1440\vieww10800\viewh8400\viewkind0 \deftab720 \pard\pardeftab720
   > \f0\fs24 \cf0 \expnd0\expndtw0\kerning0
   >  RedirectMatch 301 ^/([^/]+)/$ [http://www.oliverney.com/$1](http://www.oliverney.com/$1)\
   > f1 \cf2 \kerning1\expnd0\expndtw0 \ <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>\ RewriteEngine
   > On\ RewriteBase / \f0 \cf0 \cb3 \expnd0\expndtw0\kerning0 wordpress/ \f1 \cf2\
   > cb1 \kerning1\expnd0\expndtw0 \ RewriteRule ^index\\.php$ – [L]\ RewriteCond%\{
   > REQUEST_FILENAME\} !-f\ RewriteCond %\{REQUEST_FILENAME\} !-d\ RewriteRule ./\
   > f0 \cf0 \cb3 \expnd0\expndtw0\kerning0 wordpress/ \f1 \cf2 \cb1 \kerning1\expnd0\
   > expndtw0 index.php [L]\ </IfModule>\ # END WordPress\ }
 * How can i solve that?
 * Thanks!

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 *  [leejosepho](https://wordpress.org/support/users/leejosepho/)
 * (@leejosepho)
 * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-htacess-permalinks/#post-5807858)
 * How did things such as `\f0 \cf0 \cb3 \expnd0\expndtw0\kerning0` get into your
   htaccess? This is the first time I have ever seen anything like that in htaccess,
   and I would guess that might be what is somehow confusing WordPress on the matter
   of your htaccess being writable.
 *  Thread Starter [kmwald](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kmwald/)
 * (@kmwald)
 * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-htacess-permalinks/#post-5807957)
 * I really have no idea. I don’t know what that means.
 *  Thread Starter [kmwald](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kmwald/)
 * (@kmwald)
 * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-htacess-permalinks/#post-5808001)
 * Could please someone help me with that?
 *  [bernbe01](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bernbe01/)
 * (@bernbe01)
 * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-htacess-permalinks/#post-5808003)
 * try manually putting in generic htaccess code by hand
 * this is the most basic version [from the codex](http://codex.wordpress.org/htaccess)
 *     ```
       # BEGIN WordPress
       <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
       RewriteEngine On
       RewriteBase /
       RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
       RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
       RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
       RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
       </IfModule>
       # END WordPress
       ```
   
 *  Thread Starter [kmwald](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kmwald/)
 * (@kmwald)
 * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-htacess-permalinks/#post-5808007)
 * The funny thing this stands inside the file. Also i just could name my htaccess
   without the dot at the beginning. When i set the dot the file disappear in my
   ftp program and my homepage breaks with an internal error.
 *  [bernbe01](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bernbe01/)
 * (@bernbe01)
 * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-htacess-permalinks/#post-5808008)
 * make sure you have “show hidden files” enabled in your ftp client
 * some popular clients are documented [here](http://www.rackspace.com/knowledge_center/article/how-can-i-see-my-htaccess-file)
 * and yes, prefacing the filename with a “.” is required in almost all deploys
 * and you’ll want to replace the existing contents with that basic code, if you
   are concerned you can always make a backup of your htaccess (ie rename it to .
   htaccess-old)

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 6 replies
 * 3 participants
 * Last reply from: [bernbe01](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bernbe01/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-htacess-permalinks/#post-5808008)
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