Question

I am working on pinnacle cart – but the thing is that when i am trying to set “Enable flat URLs generation”, it says:

Please note: Error writing ‘.htaccess’ file. Please check file permissions.

I am not sure which permission it should be. I know it need to have mod_rewrite working as well. I am not familiar with .htaccess and mod_rewrite.

chmod 644 .htacesss doesn’t work at all. So I am guessing if i don’t do anything with mod_rewrite, then .htaccess isnt working?

i did:
chown root .htaccess
chown 644 .htaccess

example:

RewriteEngine   On
RewriteBase     /
RewriteCond     $1 !^(\#(.)*|\?(.)*|\.buildpath(.)*|.svn\/(.)*|admin\.php(.)*|content\/(.)*|download\.php(.)*|images\/(.)*|index\.php(.)*|install\/(.)*|login\.php(.)*|readme\.txt(.)*|robots\.txt(.)*)
RewriteRule     ^(.+)$ index.php?url=$1 [L]

One problem is that it will cause the .html to be down online. so do i have to add “*|home\.html(.)*“?

Please give me insight on this and thank you

Answer 1

chown the file(.htaccess) to set the owner to PHP’s user, then chmod 755 That should do the trick 🙂

Plus you want: RewriteEngine On see below

RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond $1 !^(#(.)|\?(.)|.buildpath(.)|.svn\/(.)|admin.php(.)|content\/(.)|download.php(.)|images\/(.)|index.php(.)|install\/(.)|login.php(.)|readme.txt(.)|robots.txt(.)*)
RewriteRule ^(.+)$ index.php?url=$1 [L]