Cannot find htaccess file

I'd recommend waiting to use it until you move to your production server instead. Join today and get access to 1,'s of books and videos. Sign up today! Step 1. Access cPanel's File Manager Go to yourdomain.

In the Files section, look for the "File Manager" icon. If you wanted that you would need to use WordPress. After a php version update my site went down. The hosting company are no help at all. I read your blog and updated my permalinks file and all works fine now. Many thanks, Tom :. Glad our recommendation was able to help. Thank you! Saved my day.

Glad our guide could help. Glad our recommendation could help. Quite a Helpful article, thankyou. Yes, your site should have an. It handles some things on your site and gives you more tools you can use. Thanks that was really helpful. I did not save changes for the first time and also the permission as you said. Once i did that i worked fine thanks again. Glad our article could help yo fix the issue.

Also you may not be able to the find. You are correct, that is another possibility but not always a common one. I tried to see if the file was hidden. I then went to permalinks and saved changes even tried updating some settings and updating again a few times.

It just accepted the changes. Not sure why this is happening. Can you please help. Go in WordPress and then click on settings and then select permalinks and then select plain and then save changes. This probably worked once, but no longer. No message appears on the Permalinks page when you save it. Pretty much useless from the get-go. It still works. Very weird!

Please help. I did find my. Now all pages are secure except the home page. Any help would be appreciated. I have the same problem.

Please answer!!! If your web hosting server is using a different software like Windows or Nginx then you may not be able ot find. Thank you, John-Paul. Hello Yogesh, Thank you for contacting us. Yes, your. Was this article helpful? Let us know! Cancel reply. Need More Help? Search our Help Articles. Search for:. Current Customers. Basically speaking, it is a configuration file that instructs a webserver how to handle certain requests. An example for WordPress users. The WordPress system automatically finds and edits the.

It does this to make long and complicated sequences shorter and more memorable. I discuss this further later on in this post.

Many webservers run on a version of the UNIX operating system, in which hidden files are common. In order to see them you have to configure your webserver to show you them.