Can't find .htaccess

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Hello,

I’ve been testing the hook: add_rewrite_rule to amend url rewriting.

Just to refresh you on how this hook works. When permalinks is saved then this rewrites the .htaccess file to set the url/slug structure of the site.

I’ve made an amend which has caused a 504 Gateway Timeout error.

I now need to amend the .htaccess file but I cannot find it. I was expecting this in the root of the wp site.

Should I look somewhere else?

Advice appreciated. I’m using nginx at the moment.

Thanks

Elliot

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Hi Elliot,

nginx doesn’t use .htaccess. .htaccess is only available when using Apache.

As soon as you switch that site to Apache and update the WordPress permalinks you should see it :smiley:

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Info:
Because I have set up the site by default with nginx and then changed to apache, the rewrite via .htaccess did not work for me.

But creating a new site with apache directly does work.