htaccess on OS X Leopard

Hi,

How do I change htaccess.txt to .htaccess on a Mac
running Joomla 1.5.5 on OS X Leopard.

Simply renaming will not do the trick.

Thanks in advance….
accel

Hi,

What do you mean by ‘simply renaming doesn’t do the trick’? What is the error you’re getting?

Cheers

Hi,

I get this error message as I try to rename htaccess.txt to .htaccess: You can’t use names that start with a dot (.) because only the system can use these names. Choose a different name.

Is there a other way to rename the file?

Thanks…

Hi accel,

Try doing it in the Terminal. You can use the command ‘cd’ to change the directory to the path where the htaccess.txt file is located, and the command ‘mv’ to rename it as in

mv htaccess.txt .htaccess

Cheers

thanks Antonio, it worked.

I also tried renaming with Filezilla and that works too.

You’re welcome!