Problem moving site from local to server

Finally!!! You’re last bit pushed me to solve this.

I was using the wrong file name for the .htaccess

I got stuck on this because I couldn’t figure out how rename that file. Windows won’t let you rename a file without the name in front of the extension. I finally figured out how rename the stupid file.

Problem solved.

Thank you!!!

Glad you got it working.
You can use an FTP program or Dreamweaver etc. for renaming files.

Or you can create a new file named .htaccess and copy/paste the content of your ht.access file, then upload it.

Thanks for the suggestions on this.

I didn’t realize I could create a file directly using .filename. Cool! Seems like the easy way.

Well it seems I learned something about windows/dos as well. I was using Start->Run->Command to get a DOS window as an attempt to rename the file. Turns out this uses 8.3 file format. I couldn’t navigate to the directory.

After a bit of googling, I found that Start->Run->CMD to get a DOS window enables long file names. Once I could see the file, I could rename the file.

Thanks everyone for you help.

Terry

My FTP client allows me to create a file directly on the server, then I can just click on it to download the new file into my browser of choice, edit it, and when I save it automatically uploads it back again. Quick and painless. And fortunate, because OS X doesn’t allow renaming or creating files that start with . although it can be done through the terminal, but then you can’t see it to upload it (unless you configure the UI to show these "hidden" files, and OS X being based on a *nix variant, there are a ton of them!)