Comments on: WordPress’ .htaccess File Is Genius

By: Franklin

Franklin — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 06:36:11 +0000

Hi David,

I am having some troubles with my website in search and wanted to show you my .htaccess file to ask if you think it is set up ok. It differs a little from what you are showing on this page, and I admit that I do not understand how the commands work, but I know how to find files, so please tell me if this is structured properly or if it has some errors.

# BEGIN WordPress

RewriteEngine On RewriteBase / RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule . /index.php [L]

# END WordPress

Thanks in advance

By: Tony B

Tony B — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 13:13:02 +0000

David, I’m getting an error in WP, running 3.3.1 that says:
Your backup folder MIGHT be visible to the public. To correct this issue, move the .htaccess file from wp-content/plugins/wp-dbmanager to /home/nnnn/public_html/blog/wp-content/backup-db

If I move my .htaccess file to the directory indicated in the error my site doesn’t work. The location of the file is actually /home/nnnn/public_html/blog/ The file permissions for .htaccess are 0644. It seems like an erroneous error message, but I’m not a programmer so I wanted to see if you have an answer.

Great read on your .htaccess post!

Thanks!

Tony

By: Jessica

Jessica — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 19:30:46 +0000

OMG Thankyou! Sometimes I get htaccess issues on my sites, and the only way to fix it is to use these examples, this saved me having to get another clean example from one of my other websites! Thanks

By: peter parker

peter parker — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 04:07:23 +0000

hi in my wordpress dashboar display meassage “Please make sure your .htaccess file is writeable ” what is this meaning?

By: Herb

Herb — Tue, 10 May 2011 03:44:18 +0000

This is beyond frustrating. None of the .htaccess examples work, and killing my root .htaccess is simply not an option. :-/

By: Mia

Mia — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 15:48:03 +0000

Just refresh the page, clear the cache and then follow the links from the home page. This is probably not anything to do with .htaccess

By: mark shirley

mark shirley — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 22:33:29 +0000

Can anyone tell me were my htaccess file is in wordpress 3.0 im getting error 500 warnings and need to add some code to it in 1&1 hosting

By: Micheal Steven

Micheal Steven — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 05:07:17 +0000

I am so poor of WordPress. I just start to learnt it 3 hours ago and now I got one problem.

I can change Permalink to make it as a friendly URL but when I access to thoese page I got the error message that not found my pages.

Does anyone knew about this problem, please give some guide to me.

Thank.

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Fri, 14 May 2010 21:12:13 +0000

Hi,

You look like a htaccess knowledgeable person, I have a riddle for you:

So we’ve installed WordPress into our /blogs/ folder.

We had an old store in the /store/ folder.

We upgraded to WP E-Commerce and now it’s in /blogs/store/

We want to make all the old links that go to /store/ load the new store.

I’ve tried this but it does not work:

RewriteRule ^store/ /blogs/store/

RewriteRule ^store /blogs/?p=123

if 123 is the page id of store.

By: nirok

nirok — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 20:32:57 +0000

I’ve been trying to find an answer everywhere for this but how do you get the reply box on the comments like you have here?