Why arent the htaccess files showing to user?

[proweb]

Ok stupid question where are the .htaccess files?
Is mod rewrite part of dsm or does it have to be added and more importantly why cant I see my htaccess files?

[Jeremy]

Where cant you see them?

ftp? ssh? http?

In the httpd.conf look for a line called... AccessFileName i think...

Running /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd -L|grep .htaccess should verify its active.

[proweb]

I cant see the file in file browser or in ftp to edit them at all

[Jeremy]

I never used the filemanager but i see what you mean.

Odd for the ftp to block it, i would check and see if its hiding .anything files.

Or make sure its ownd by the user, not as root or anything else.

[Paul]

You cannot see files that begin with a "." to include .htaccess files via the file manager.

Proftpd has this turned off by default. A link to the docs is below.

http://www.proftpd.org/docs/directives/linked/config_ref_ListOptions.html

In short:
Add the below line to your /etc/proftpd.conf file and restart proftpd.
ListOptions "-a"

[proweb]

Thanks, that worked, thought for a minute was going to have to switch control panels whew;)

[Jeremy]

Aww paul!

Had to give the answer!

[Jeremy]

BTW what FTP client were you using?

I use FlashFXP and i don't have any issues for listing .files i haven't added any real extras to my config or at least i don't think i did.