colbyolson

Permalinks now work, thank you Joni. Ends up TextEdit for the mac isnt too great to use, ending up not creating a “blank” htaccess file. I borrowed my girlfriends laptop, made a blank text doc and uploaded it using SmartFTP, and boom, problem solved.

Thank again for your help guys.

Thank you all for your help, after my studying I will definitely try this and post the results. Thanks guys, I appreciate it.

Their forum has a total of 4 threads combined, each no more than one comment, with no activity what so ever on them.

As for the hotlinking thread, it reads:

Bandwidth theft or “hotlinking” is a direct linking to web site’s files (images, video, etc.). It can be prevented for example with
mod_rewrite module. Place rules like below into the vhost.conf or .htaccess files for the needed domain (for example https://www.DOMAIN_NAME.TLD):

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond % !^$
RewriteCond % !^https://(www\.)?DOMAIN_NAME\.TLD(/)?.*$ [NC]
RewriteRule \.(gif|jpg|jpeg|png|swf)$ – [NC,F]

But no where on my site is there a .htaccess file, I am currently looking for something like vhost.conf, (edit: also, with no such luck.)

webhostgiant.com

Im not sure if I am pleased with them or not. It takes forever for them to respond to any question I ask.

So am Im in the dark until my host responds? I sent them another message, hopefully they are faster on this one.

Thanks whooami for your help so far.

No reponse from the host yet, they’re real fast on that part.

As for the empty I just created text file with “#empty comment”, uploaded it to the main directory and changed the name to .htaccess
Any htaccess file I upload causes internal errors, so perhaps Im uploading it into the wrong directory?

I set the directory wp-content to 777 and it seemed to fix everything, try it.

Rebump.

Please?