Ever had issues creating an htaccess file on your windows machine? Well heres a quick way to create it and to make sure your .htaccess file is valid for the system.
- open a command prompt – start->run->cmd is probably the easiest way
- browse to the folder you want by using a combination of cd (change directory) and dir (list files/directories)
- type in the following command…
copy con .htaccess [Enter]
And thats all there is to it. The blank .htaccess file will be created. Good to go. Now you can enter in your redirects and mod_rewrite rules to make sure your site is search engine friendly! Edit with notepad or something similar.
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terminal couldnt finish execution of last line, and i quit. it did not create the file either. so this meyhod either not works or takes too long.
i recommend this one:
http://www.htaccesstools.com/htaccess-faq/#makeHtaccessWin