.htaccess not allowed in my host?

Nuke Soldier Joined: Apr 07, 2005 Posts: 18

Greetings,

My apology if this has already been addressed. I did a couple of searches on the forum and did not find a similar question asked.

Last night I began to FTP the [lists] folder into the [public_html] folder that is placed in root.

All of the files transferred without a hitch except:
for all files that began with a [dot]
such as:

.htaccess

I believe that there were a total of 8 files that start with a dot. My server explained that files names must NOT start with a dot or a dash.

Anyone know a solution to this problem?

And is there a problem to run my phpnuke website without .htaccess?

Thanks Much

Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2007 5:52 am

You could always try re-naming the .htaccess file to something like htaccess.txt , then once uploaded, try and rename it back to .htaccess , however, I doubt this will work . Just depends on how the server is setup . I don't believe there is a work around for this if re-naming your file doesn't work . As for your site , it will still work without it .

Sergeant Joined: Mar 03, 2007 Posts: 127

Change server...

Nuke Soldier Joined: Apr 07, 2005 Posts: 18

hue wrote:

You could always try re-naming the .htaccess file to something like htaccess.txt , then once uploaded, try and rename it back to .htaccess , however, I doubt this will work . Just depends on how the server is setup . I don't believe there is a work around for this if re-naming your file doesn't work . As for your site , it will still work without it .

i rename it its just htaccess no dots nothing when i put the dot its says filename not allowed.

If the site works without the .htaccess i`ll just leave it alone but if gives me problems i may think about changing the host...

I thank you for your help...

Cheers.

Private Joined: Jan 26, 2004 Posts: 42 Location: New York

hue wrote:

You could always try re-naming the .htaccess file to something like htaccess.txt , then once uploaded, try and rename it back to .htaccess , however, I doubt this will work . Just depends on how the server is setup . I don't believe there is a work around for this if re-naming your file doesn't work . As for your site , it will still work without it .

funny thing is I just did this yesterday and it worked for me!
I renamed the .htaccess to htaccess.txt - transfered all the files over and manually renamed them on the derver and BAM - works perfectly!!

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