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sekhmet · 11-01-2007, 01:19 PM

hello everyone,

in a bit of a pickle and am going to try to explain exactly what I need.

I have built an online community using a CMS. I want my members and visitors to be able to view member profiles by accessing it directly from their own url, eg. www.mysite.com/username.

My problem is that everything that I try gives me the error message 404 page not found. Developers are telling me to insert code into my htaccess.txt file and rename it .htaccess. But renaming the file .htaccess reaks havoc with my site and makes it disappear.

Is their anyway to create a redirect php file in order to correct this problem, or must I use the htaccess. txt file, which I have not had any success with. Thank you.

11-01-2007, 01:19 PM	#1 (permalink)
sekhmet Junior Member Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 1	redirect 404 error page and htaccess file hello everyone, in a bit of a pickle and am going to try to explain exactly what I need. I have built an online community using a CMS. I want my members and visitors to be able to view member profiles by accessing it directly from their own url, eg. www.mysite.com/username. My problem is that everything that I try gives me the error message 404 page not found. Developers are telling me to insert code into my htaccess.txt file and rename it .htaccess. But renaming the file .htaccess reaks havoc with my site and makes it disappear. Is their anyway to create a redirect php file in order to correct this problem, or must I use the htaccess. txt file, which I have not had any success with. Thank you.