Where is .htaccess

  • scurran

    (@scurran)


    19 years, 6 months ago

    Hello, I am trying to set up my permalinks. I made the change under the blog admin, and it says that now I need to modify .htaccess. Using my FTP software I cannot find .htaccess, and when I try to access it in wordpress admin it says file does not exist.

    What do I need to do to complete the change to permalinks that I am trying to make? Thank you.

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  • moshu

    (@moshu)

    19 years, 6 months ago

    If you didn’t use it till now… chances are you don’t have one. Options:
    a) make an empty file with that name and upload it and > chmod 666 and let WP to write it
    b) create the file, put the code given by WP in it and upload it.

    P.S. Don’t forget to change back the permissions (644) after you are done with a)

    Thread Starter scurran

    (@scurran)

    19 years, 6 months ago

    Hello,

    So creat an empty file called .htaccess in notepad? does it need a file extension? It gets uploaded to the wordpress main folder.

    and create a file called .chmod 666?

    Sorry, this is new to me.

    moshu

    (@moshu)

    19 years, 6 months ago

    Almost…
    The “extension” is .htaccess – it doesn’t have a name 🙂
    The “chmod” refers to file permissions:
    http://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_File_Permissions

    Thread Starter scurran

    (@scurran)

    19 years, 6 months ago

    Thank you it seems to all be working. I was using Ipswitch FTP which does not allow you to view hidden files so I couldn’t change the permissions. I downloaded Filezilla that I saw recommended on this site and changed the permissions using that. Then when I changed the permalink settings for my blog it wrote the necessary to code to the file. Easy as pie – thank you!

    vkaryl

    (@vkaryl)

    19 years, 6 months ago

    WS_FTP/Ipswitch does allow you to see them…. you need to make sure you can see the “File Mask” entry field, and insert into it “-la” without the double quotes (I *think* and I may be wrong, so hope someone else can verify).

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