Title: htaccess File Problems
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# htaccess File Problems

 *  [kraftomatic](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kraftomatic/)
 * (@kraftomatic)
 * [19 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/htaccess-file-problems/)
 * Hey Guys,
 * I’m having problems with my .htaccess file. Specifically, I don’t have one in
   my root WordPress directory. Why is this? I have the latest version of WordPress
   and permalinks turned on. I’m trying to get the Static Jack plugin working and
   can’t without modifying my .htaccess file.
 * Any help would be greatly appreciated.
 * Thanks.

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 *  [bpartch](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bpartch/)
 * (@bpartch)
 * [19 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/htaccess-file-problems/#post-448279)
 * Hello
 * Make sure you have “show hidden files” selected in your FTP program.
 * If you do and there is still no .htaccess file there you will need to create 
   it using a text/html editor.
 * Visit the wp-admin for your blog and go to the permalinks tab and copy the code
   in the textarea and past it into the file and save it as .htaccess, then make
   the other changes you need to to get this plug in working and then upload it 
   to the root of your wp install.
 *  [cldeans](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cldeans/)
 * (@cldeans)
 * [19 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/htaccess-file-problems/#post-448809)
 * Funny, I have had exactly the same problem – and yet, I can only imagine I *did*
   have an htaccess file, and it has now disappeared. Why? Becs I managed to change
   my URLs to permalinks – it was only when I decided to change them to something
   else, that I started to get the “file is not accessible” message.
 * Any suggestions? If someone could just give me the htaccess code for the default
   settings (as they are not generated in the text box) I would be grateful.
 * Thanks in advance,
    Cate
 *  [Reaper-X](https://wordpress.org/support/users/reaper-x/)
 * (@reaper-x)
 * [19 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/htaccess-file-problems/#post-448810)
 * here’s the default that came with wp (if you put wp in root directory of your
   web server)
 * `<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine On RewriteBase / RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}!-
   f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule . /index.php [L] </IfModule
   >
 *  [fireworkszone](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fireworkszone/)
 * (@fireworkszone)
 * [19 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/htaccess-file-problems/#post-448813)
 * My htaccess file is in the root directory of my web server and if I place the
   code given above:
 * <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine On RewriteBase / RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}!-
   f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule . /index.php [L] </IfModule
   >
 * I get a 500 Internal Server Error
 * Any idea what’s wrong and do I have to opt for another news publishing system?
 *  [cldeans](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cldeans/)
 * (@cldeans)
 * [19 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/htaccess-file-problems/#post-448818)
 * Thanks for posting Reaper-X. Unfortunately it doesn’t seem to have solved my 
   problem.
 * It is as if WordPress just isn’t seeing the .htaccess file. It is there, and 
   I have made it fully writeable, but it keeps saying “if this file was writeable…”
 * Is there a way of resetting things, without losing my content?
 * Regards
    Cate
 *  [whooami](https://wordpress.org/support/users/whooami/)
 * (@whooami)
 * [19 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/htaccess-file-problems/#post-448819)
 * fireworkszone,
 * I cant see why that would cause an error like that, for starters:
 * enclosing those rules inside `<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>` and `</IfModule>` tells
   apache NOT to complain if, for some reason, mod_rewrite is not available.
 * second, I tested exactly that on my own server and got no error back.
 * ————————-
 * youre an old b2evolution user, and you left your phpinfo file up from some posts
   over on those forums. I took a look.
 * Despite the fact thats a NIX box, the web server doesnt appear to be Apache. 
   Thats the source of the problme with the code above.
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 * Theres some other people with very similar problems.
 *  [cldeans](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cldeans/)
 * (@cldeans)
 * [19 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/htaccess-file-problems/#post-448827)
 * dum de dum dum dumb!
 * I had put in alternative site address for my blog that didn’t exist. *duh*!
 *  [fireworkszone](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fireworkszone/)
 * (@fireworkszone)
 * [19 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/htaccess-file-problems/#post-448846)
 * Thanks whooami for letting me know

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