Many people complain they can’t find the .htaccess in their FTP programs. Most users must edit .htaccess for the permalinks of wordpress. Here’s a short tutorials with ways to get htaccess to show up.

#1. Getting .htaccess in WS FTP PRO
This is for the FTP Professional version.
First of all, go to your website’s properties and add -a to the Remote file ask field. (to make .htaccess visible).
1. Create a new text file and call it 1.txt
2. Upload it to your root folder with FTP pro.
3. Go to operations >> Rename >> and call it .htaccess
4. Right click the file and go to properties
5. Check all the fields for a 777 CHMODD (writable for wordpress itself).
6. Done!

#2. Getting .htaccess in CoreFTP or Cuteftp
1. Go to the site manager and edit the settings for the server website.
2. Go to the “general” tab and click on the “Enable Filter” checkbox and then the “Filter” button.
3. Go to the “Options” tab and check “Enable remote filters” and enter ‘-la’ (without the quotes) into the “remote filter” text box.

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