.ht access

[marvin]

Do your hosting service support rewritable .ht access? Currently I am using a hosting service that support rewritable .ht access for my Joomla website. But when I tried to change the default .ht access with .ht access provided by Joomla, it didn't work and showed internal error notification. May I did some mistake in changing it?

[mander]

Most of the hosting places I have seen do not allow clients to do this, but they will do it themselves if you put a ticket in of sorts. I think its a security issue for some?

[Amelia]

Originally Posted by marvin

Do your hosting service support rewritable .ht access? Currently I am using a hosting service that support rewritable .ht access for my Joomla website. But when I tried to change the default .ht access with .ht access provided by Joomla, it didn't work and showed internal error notification. May I did some mistake in changing it?

Yes, you will have full access to the .htaccess file with a VPS or a Dedicated server. The servers are fully tweaked to run Joomla websites along with high level of security.

[marvin]

Thanks for the reply Do you mean to say that we don't have access to it with the shared hosting? My website have neither traffic nor significance to the point that it needs a dedicated server yet.

[Zohann]

Pardon my lack of knowledge, I have the following question: I'm using .htaccess file on all my sites and tweak it manually. Does this mean that is rewritable? I also use WordPress on many sites and it writes to the .htaccess without any problem. Is manually tweaking the .htaccess file considered any different than allowing some script like WP to write in it?

[Jonathan]

For example, I know that WordPress writes certain commands to the .htaccess file, like 302 redirection. You need to have your .htaccess file writable so WP can do this.

[Crazzy]

All my hosts, up so far at least, allowed a rewritable .htaccess file. I'm surprised to see that some hosts don't have this by default. Most of my scripts do write in this file, so making it writable is an imperative.

[TwoCups]

Hi Marvin

When you install joomla, there is no .htaccess file installed by default.

When your updating the site global configuration ( SITE > GLOBAL CONFIGURATION >SEO SETTINGS) you'll see a yellow warning advising you to rename the file htaccess.txt that was installed to .htaccess before activating - this is so it has the correct settings for a whole bunch of stuff for securing your install and updating your site urls correctly is enabled.

using your favourite ftp client or the plesk/cpanel with bod, rename your htaccess.txt to .htaccess under httpdocs, ensure the permissions are set to 644 and you should be good to go.

hth

[Amelia]

Originally Posted by Crazzy

All my hosts, up so far at least, allowed a rewritable .htaccess file. I'm surprised to see that some hosts don't have this by default. Most of my scripts do write in this file, so making it writable is an imperative.

A user will generally have complete access to .htaccess file for his account. You might want to ask your host if the server is using phpSuExec.

[Rebecca]

Originally Posted by Amelia

A user will generally have complete access to .htaccess file for his account. You might want to ask your host if the server is using phpSuExec.

What happens if it is a phpsuexec server ? Will htacess not work? Does that mean we are not able to set custom rules?

[Amelia]

Originally Posted by Rebecca

What happens if it is a phpsuexec server ? Will htacess not work? Does that mean we are not able to set custom rules?

If the server is using phpSuExec, you must php.ini instead of .htaccess to set php settings.

[Rebecca]

And will it allow us to set the custom rules just as we set in htaccess?

[Amelia]

Originally Posted by Rebecca

And will it allow us to set the custom rules just as we set in htaccess?

Yes, it indeed will. You can create a php.ini instead of .htaccess and set rules as applicable for php.ini and over ride server settings