.htaccess on windows server problems and questions

Looking at Yahoo’s hosting page, I don’t think they use windows……but not entirely sure.

I don’t think there’s a way around using .htaccess for rewriting your url’s…..

Did you have friendly url’s before the move?

Can you try and give me more information.

Please excuse my ignorance, but what are friendly urls? If you mean did I have a link structure such as

https://www.website.com/category/post-name/

Then yea that’s how I had my permalink structure before I changed my blog to the root directory

Also, what more information do you need to help me?

Edit: I just read from another support post that Yahoo indeed doesn’t have/support .htaccess files

Sorry, by friendly url’s, I mean permalinks, like the example you have above. /date/title

You said “how can I still use” that tells me that you had them working before…..

Sooo, if you had them working before, then you had an .htaccess file there.

For further information I mean, what did you have under permalink settings before the move, and after the move?

Changing the permalink settings should edit the .htaccess file for you, you shouldn’t need to edit it yourself…

Hmm.. check this out. This is the source for the Customizble plugin by yahoo

function update_permalink_file() {
  if (isset($_POST['permalink_structure']) ) {
    if(empty($_POST['permalink_structure']) ) {
      unlink(get_home_path() . '.plink');
    } else {
      touch(get_home_path() . '.plink');
    }
  }

  if(strcmp($_GET['deactivate'],"true")==0){
      unlink(get_home_path() . '.plink');
  } else if(strcmp($_GET['activate'],"true")==0){
      touch(get_home_path() . '.plink');
  }
<strong>  unlink(get_home_path() . '.htaccess');</strong>}

// Now we set that function up to execute when the admin_footer action is called
add_filter('mod_rewrite_rules', 'update_permalink_file');
add_action('mod_rewrite_rules', 'update_permalink_file');
?>

It mentions .htaccess in the source.. so perhaps I do have an .htaccess file? How can I find it then? It’s not showing up in the file manager or the ftp program.

Why is this thread acting weird? One of my posts is always missing..

You say that Yahoo doesn’t support .htaccess file but you had friendly urls…..

And here you’re showing me a plugin by Yahoo……that must make the friendly url’s possible?

They must have a different way of doing this or a central .htaccess file that you can’t access for security purposes.

Maybe someone with more Yahoo experience can jump in and help us out……

This was found off Yahoo’s small business home directory, listed under .htaccess

“Yahoo! does not currently allow you to upload .htaccess files to your account. For other customization options, we recommend the Custom Error Pages and password-protection features available in your Web Hosting Control Panel. ”

I think I’ll just stick to the default permalink structure. It’s going to be a mission to figure this out.

Thanks for all your help though.