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OK last necropost.

It’s only fair I note that the latest newsletter from Netfirms notes that mod_rewrite is now supported (on at least some of their hosting packages, mine included)

I’ve not tested it, but in theory it’s now officially supported.

Sorry to bump this but I thought an answer would be better than to leave the thread open ended.

I emailed their support, they replied – a day or so later:

At the moment, we do not offer AllowOverride for .htaccess. It has been added to our list of client requested features and may be included in a future service upgrade.

So I guess in this case they’re not being entirely truthful. Their support pages specifically mention that they support mod_rewrite, but unless I don’t quite understand how it works (quite possible) they don’t actually support it at all.

Shame.

Cool thanks. I have what seems to be the standard in there so I’ll just keep an eye out. It looks like a few people have had issues since upgrading to 2.x

Thanks Moshu. I’m thinking perhaps it’s not relevant anyway under WP 2, based on what I’ve read.
The contents of the .htaccess file don’t seem to be updated in response to changes to the Permalink options in the admin at any rate, no matter what it’s permissions are set to.

I’ve just set up WP2.0 up on a Netfirms hosted domain (I tried to use their one click installer but it went all screwy so I installed it manually) and I’m getting the same problem.

The fix that Seeds linked to above doesn’t work for me at all.

WP should update the .htaccess file automatically when I change the Permalink structure yes? I don’t need to chmod to 666(?) or something fancy before changing my settings in the QP admin? I’m (obviously) a bit new to both WP and Apache.

My .htaccess is currently

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /blog/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /blog/index.php
</IfModule>
# END WordPress

edit:
sorry, reading this thread
https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/63887?replies=10
are the contents of .htaccess irrelevant anyway?

also, I’ve uploaded the two updated files from this thread to no avail
https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/54340?replies=39#post-298609