Need help understanding what to do.

got it… now i can start a new!!! thanks for all the help figaro.

Ok now I’m getting error messages. I have read some of the blogs and gathered that I have to do something with permalink… exactly what I don’t know can someone help me understand what to do?

lol, did you change the permalink settings? There are 2 other threads with the same problem just below your’s – see if you can relate, it may help ??

ok… I feel a little better knowing what a permalink is. well I did read the threads and gathered that I have to paste and copy something from my permalink settings and go back and past it in a file called htaccess is that right?

If it is then is this the information that i have to copy and paste?

month name https://scottishdreamtours.com/blog/2008/12/sample-post/

am I heading in the right direction?

yep that’s right. So the code in the grey box under the permalinks page needs to be copied and pasted into your htaccess file (it will say stuff like rewrite etc). You should be able to do that by downloading the htaccess file using an ftp program and then add the code using notepad.

hmmm… ok very new to this… so the same code that’s there is the one I need, I don’t need to change it or anything right? ok so once I down load the htaccess file where exactly do I enter this information, or is it going to be one of those “Oh Yeah” things?

where do I find this htaccess file?

Yeah as long as you have month and name selected then the code in the grey box will be all that you need.

If you already find some code in the htaccess file once you open it in notepad then you can add it after everything there. It may even be empty in which case you can paste it from the very first line.

It should work out hopefully. Also you may need to ensure that your upload settings in your ftp program are set to ASCII. It may be set as binary at the moment. Once you’ve dragged your edited htaccess file onto your server you can change the setting back to binary.

Two important things:

In notepad when you’re pasting the code make sure word wrap is set to off (Format > Word Wrap).

And of course when you save the file, make sure it doesn’t save as .txt. If it does you should be able to rename it later. But probably best to make sure it stays .htacess

Have you used ftp?

yes

ok, you should see it in your root folder – public_html or maybe in www. We can always create a new one if it’s not there.

ok we did a search and could not find it. so how do i create one?

I forgot to mention that it could be hidden. So it may not show up. Which ftp program are you using? Maybe there is a way to show hidden files.

However if it isn’t there then you need to open up notepad and paste the code in, with word wrap off.

When you save it, call it .htaccess and where it says save as type select – all files. You can then upload this to your root folder.

yeah did search all hiddin files and it’s not there… so i just open notepad and paste that gray box stuff save it as .htaccess and then upload it to my root file. am I good there?

yeah that’s right, should work, let me know what happens.