Davidizor advice sounds concise and easy to follow, however, i cant even get the htaccess folder i created to show up in FTP. You said to DOWNLOAD the file. The only 2 ways i could figure out how to do that was 1. click on it, it opens in a chrome page. If i drag it to my desktop it appears as a chrome file. 2. after it opens paste the contents into notepad and save it as htaccess on my desktop. either way the file doesn’t show in FTP. Right clicking the file name in your note above, does not give me a download option. can someone help me get past what must be obvious so i can try this fix?