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Posted by Mister Moody
Mister Moody
48,333 Points

Writing to an .htaccess File

I spent an amount of time that I cannot get back trying to figure out how to write to an .htaccess file using Treehouse workspaces. What I learned is that @alenaholligan had already taught me how to do this at the 1:48 mark of this tutorial.

In essence, to write to this file type, which is reserved for system configurations, modify the extension to read htaccess.txt. This allows the file to be written on. Add your rules then rename the file as .htaccess and it is now functional.

To view (or check) the contents of this file using the console, type vim .htaccess and all of the rules will be displayed!

1 Answer

Ben Payne
Ben Payne
1,464 Points
Ben Payne
Ben Payne
1,464 Points

Hey MM - Me again haha. Here are the steps I took to create and edit an .htaccess file in workspaces.

Step 1 - In console $ vi .htaccess

Step 2 - Add your content to the .htaccess file.

Step 3 - :wq to write the contents.

In the workspaces sidebar, right click the parent folder then click 'refresh'.

The .htaccess file should be there.

Hope that helps.

Cheers,

Ben