permalinks problem httacces question

[hanu]

I searched around the forum and google and I did find many people having this problem , and some solving it
I think I now understand why some of my permalinks wont work
like /%postname%/
it has to do with htacces
I see at some blogs I dont have htacces file
and these are the blogs where it doesnt work
so I read in another thread which i didnt want to bump
about it
but I have no real clue what I need to do , how to create this httacces file
what does it need to contain etc.etc.

also i read in another thread that Pam said this
"You should never set anything to 777 unless you want some serious issues"

I thought this was needed to be able to upload pictures , but thats another question I wouldlike to be enlightened about if possible

[hanu]

to update now I have added a htacces file from another blog which was installed by the hosting company and its content is this

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /blog/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /blog/index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress

properties are set to 644


but I still cant get my permalinks to work properly

[The Walrus]

With your FTP program set the access rights on the htaccess file to 666.

Go into settings, permalinks and set that up the way you want and then do a save changes. Problem will be resolved.

[hanu]

thanx Walrus my problem is resolved

[manca]

setting .htaccess permissions to 666 is extremely dangerous. as that means read and write access for everyone.
644 is permission you'd want to have.

[The Walrus]

Originally Posted by manca

setting .htaccess permissions to 666 is extremely dangerous. as that means read and write access for everyone.
644 is permission you'd want to have.

Your right I forgot to add change the permissions back to 644 after everything is working.