Re: Renaming .htaccess File

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From: Gary Smith <bitbucket@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 22 May 2007 18:29:13 -0700

Doing that you file the file with an extension but no name. Windows, or
at least Windows Explorer, doesn't like nameless files. Thing get
especially nasty if you have the brainless default setting not to display
file "types". That would produce an invisible file. I suppose that would
be a good thing for pranksters and malware producers.

Why do you want to do this?

Eddie Kasper <EddieKasper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I don't understand why I cannot rename this file (htaccess.txt) to .htaccess
on either my local computer or via ftp on the web.

I can see the file just fine but cannot change the file name.

As a matter of fact, I cannot rename any file to start with a "period" (.).

--
Gary L. Smith
Columbus, Ohio
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