Creating .htaccess on Windows

by frank on August 21, 2006

in SEO

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.

Tagged as: htaccess, windows

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  • mehmet ozeren

    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

  • Hoang Long

    It works. After the “copy con…” line, the cursor waits for user to input file content. Just press F6 (end of file mark) and Enter.