stumbling around .htaccess

The way to enable your site to allow server side includes without having to use "shtml" extensions on all your pages can be done by having an ".htaccess" file in your root directory that looks like this:


Options +Includes
AddHandler server-parsed .shtml .html .htm


Of course, the struggle was that once you try and name a file locally with a period as the first letter of the filename, you can't work with it. Some ftp browsers won't even see it.

The trick then, and this is one of those little things you wish somebody just came and told you, is to name the file differently to start out with, ..soemthing like htaccess.txt, upload it, and then rename it to .htaccess with your ftp browser.

File under: Things you'll need again but will have forgotten