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I renamed htaccess.txt to .htaccess but it told me that the file already existed

so I renamed htaccess to .htaccess.

After saving that my htacces disapeared from my cpanel

Then I turned on Apache mod_rewrite & friendly URLs

My URLs are friendly but not a single link on my site works!!

I how no idea on how to solve this, I read some posts but nothing seems to work without the htaccess file.

Please, help!

I didn't try it personally but I think .htaccess. don't work and you need to have .htaccess

remove the last dot, you can check whether an .htaccess already exists there.

template toaster wrote:I didn't try it personally but I think .htaccess. don't work and you need to have .htaccess

remove the last dot, you can check whether an .htaccess already exists there.

Yes but when I typed the last dot .htaccess disappeared, is not in my public_html

I how no idea how to put it back on.

Friendly URL don't work for many many people, this is a huge joombla bug that I didnt know.

Solved.

I could find the file in my FTP, for some reason it did not show up in my cpanel.


BTW, it is funny how you can fix a problem and then make 2 new problems, and that's how joombla works, I guess I have to get used to going 2 steps foward and one step back.

if you are using cpanel

please check the box for show hidden files

.htaccess? You're on IIS aren't you?
On IIS you need "URL Rewriter" and web.config, instead of .htaccess