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pebbleworm: often times FTP clients automatically hide the hidden files on your server just as Finder (Mac) or Explorer (PC) would on your home computer. There’s usually an option in your preferences or settings for the FTP client that will allow you to view hidden files.

For instance, I was using a Mac FTP client called Transmit and I couldn’t see my .htaccess file until I enabled the “Show invisible files” option under the View menu.

Thanks to all of you who responded.

Yep, it turned out to be an .htaccess problem. I had one for the server in general but I had to create a new blank .htaccess file in the base directory containing all my WordPress stuff. I did this by creating a new text file and naming it .htaccess and adjusting the permissions on the file to be writeable globally so that WordPress can write on it.

Hopefully this helps somebody later on who finds this post on Google.