hkclubbing

Hi

It says in the control panel of mambo that you should:

"Apache only! Rename htaccess.txt to .htaccess before activating"

I have tried to edit this file to this file name in frontpage but it did not work.

Can someone let me know how to make mambo search engine friendly and how to change the htaccess file to do this.

Thanks in advance!

manuman

Hopefully you have either an FTP program or a cPanel of some sort.

If you have FTP just logon and change the name.

If you have cPanel you should be able to go to file manager and from there change the name.

PS.

If you don't have an FTP program I would recommend Filezilla which is free and works well.

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trix

uh, manuman, your suggestion will not work if the destination server is Windows-based, if the user is literally trying to rename htaccess.txt to .htaccess.

So, if it IS a Windows server, you have to do it another way.
hkclubbing, in Unix, a dot in front of the filename literally means that the file can be found in the same directory, which Windows acutally checks by default. In Unix, if the file is not to be found in the default system path, you MUST specify the dot so that the OS knows to look in the same directory that you're executing the command from. (one of the few areas in which Windows is "better" than *nix ).

So in Windows, the dot is a reserved character in file names, it should only be used in the instance of specifying ".\filename" (a file in the same directory), which is hardly ever necessary, unless inside a script using variables...

So, what you need to do is rename the file so that the http.conf will recognise it. Simply renaming the file to htaccess should do the trick in Windows (I haven't tested it) - you may need to remove the dot before "htaccess" in the http.conf file. Or, in http.conf, specify the filename in full - "htaccess.txt".

However, if you really want to get techie-geeky about it, it is possible to create a file with a preceding dot for a name... Open a command prompt and cd to the directory that you want. Type in notepad .Test. Notepad will then ask if you want to create a new file, called .Test. Naturally, say "yes" and do your editing and save. Windows will very happy open and save such files, you just can't rename them in the usual manner. This will probably work, but it's probably best if you do things in the "windows way" mentioned above...

coolradix

Actually it is still possible though not in explorer but in DOS (Disk Operating System) wherein you can rename that file from htaccess.txt to .htaccess. In case you are not familiar with the commands in DOS, you just simply go to the directory where your htaccess.txt file is located and type in:

and if that didn't work then this one will surely do the trick!