What does “update your Permalink structure to your .htaccess file” mean?

Hi,

Thank you in advance for helping me with my troubleshooting.

The instructions on how to move wordpress from a subdirectory to a root directory say in step 10 to “update your Permalink structure to your .htaccess file.”

I don’t know what this means. I know what my .htaccess file is and I know what my permalinks are.

My .htaccess for the directory I migrated wordpress from looked like this:

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress

My .htaccess for the directory I migrated wordpress to looked like this:

# -FrontPage-

IndexIgnore .htaccess */.??* *~ *# */HEADER* */README* */_vti*

<Limit GET POST>
order deny,allow
deny from all
allow from all
</Limit>
<Limit PUT DELETE>
order deny,allow
deny from all
</Limit>
AuthName [mysite]
AuthUserFile [somedirectory]
AuthGroupFile [somedirectory]

Is it true that my new .htaccess file should just look like the two of those combined together into one?

Or when they say “update to my .htaccess file” do they mean there is something I am supposed to do in wordpress?

Thanks again,
Nick