I am back and need help

There isn’t. You either create it manually or WP creates it during the process of re-setting the permalinks.

You can got: wp-admin > option > permalinks and generate an .htaccess file from there.

ok do I do that from the admin panel?

Do what?
Creating an empty .htaccess file? – you do it on your computer and upload via FTP.
Setting the permalinks? – Yes, and you should know if you ever looked around in the admin panel of the tool you are using.

Moshu I am totally new to all of this so please bear with me. I have never had to make a .htaccess file before and have no idea on how to do it. I looked around the admin panel and it said I needed to update my .htaccess file, which did not exist. So I am trying to get this done. I do appreciate the help, but am a tech idiot ??

For me the easiest way is/was (and I am totally non-coder, either):
created an empty file, named it “.htaccess” and uploaded it into the WP root folder;
changed permissions (chmod) to 666;
logged into WP admin panel > Options > Permalinks and after typing in the structure I wanted >> click Update.
Done.

More details: https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Using_Permalinks

TY!

Do you work on an OS X Mac by any chance? If so, you cannot see the .htaccess folder on your system. If you have Fetch or another FTP program, you may find it sitting on your server space, however.

If so, rename it on the server (I just put an x in front of the leading period), then download it.

Add your new statements to it, and upload it, letting it overwrite the older one. Then delete the leading x.

If you do not work on a Mac (or some other ‘nix system), pardon me for butting in! <g>

EDIT: Oops, I see you did not see it on your server. If it exists, it will be on your domain’s root.

EDIT 2: There is an .htaccess tutorial on the Apache.org web site:
https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/howto/htaccess.html

Kathleen