Title: Problems adding .htaccess file
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Problems adding .htaccess file

 *  [joffjk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joffjk/)
 * (@joffjk)
 * [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problems-adding-htaccess-file-1/)
 * So I want to use the pretty permalinks on my website I did a test page with the
   default permalinks and the page was created fine I move on to create my custom
   permalinks setup and create test page 2 The page then comes up with
 * Not Found
    The requested document was not found on this server.
 * I then discover that I don’t have a .htaccess file on the ftp so I created a 
   blank 2.htaccess.php file which i upload on my ftp and I then changed the name
   of the file to .htaccess which and I check the premissions is 644
 * then I went to my home page and came up with
 * Internal Server Error
    The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration
   and was unable to complete your request. Please contact the server administrator
   to inform of the time the error occurred and of anything you might have done 
   that may have caused the error. More information about this error may be available
   in the server error log. I then deleted the file and the site return to the home
   page
 * can anyone help with resolving this problem thanks

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 *  [Rahul Sonar](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rahulsonar/)
 * (@rahulsonar)
 * [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problems-adding-htaccess-file-1/#post-2005048)
 * follow these steps:
 * 1) set the permission of the file to 755
    2) Go to settings ->permalink and save
   the structure again (make sure it is not warning you about file permissions)
 * 3) Check if your URL’s work
 * 4) Change the permissions back to 644
 *  Thread Starter [joffjk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joffjk/)
 * (@joffjk)
 * [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problems-adding-htaccess-file-1/#post-2005051)
 * Hi thanks for the help I tried to do that but am still can’t access my site
 * when i go to
 * /wp-admin
 * I’m still getting Internal Server Error message
 *  Thread Starter [joffjk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joffjk/)
 * (@joffjk)
 * [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problems-adding-htaccess-file-1/#post-2005297)
 * I still haven’t been able resolve this problem has anyone got an idea what might
   be cause this problem

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 3 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [joffjk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joffjk/)
 * Last activity: [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problems-adding-htaccess-file-1/#post-2005297)
 * Status: not resolved

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