.htaccess Issue

[Rogan76]

Please forgive me if this question has been asked, but I cant seem to find a correct answer....

My scenario is I have a VPS with WHM access, I have two cpanel accounts the first is my main website and it is working perfectly with opencart.

The second is a new website with Valina forums installed on it, for some reason I am having an issue with pretty urls. I find that the issue is with .htaccess, for some reason the .htaccess for the second cpanel account is not being read.

After googling for quite a while i was not able to find a soultion, is there to configure the server through whm to allow changes to the .htaccess file to take affect on the new cpanel account?

I have seen some talk about editing through Apache Configuration but I am abit lost?

Any help would be much appreciated.

 

[Infopro]

Silly question I'm sure. Have you checked to see if the .htaccess is actually there in the root of the account, named correctly and has the proper permissions?

 

[Rogan76]

Hi Infopro,

Thank you for your reply, I have checked the root directory and the file is in the correct location with a permission of 775 and named correctly.

Thank you for your reply

 

[Infopro]

Just for fun, Password protect a directory, any directory on that account. If Vanilla is in /forum/ pass protect it via cPanel. And then try to access it from your browser. Do you get a popup asking for a password when you do?

 

[Rogan76]

Hi,

I have password protected a directory and when I go to the directory is does not ask for any credentials?

 

[Infopro]

Hi,

I have password protected a directory and when I go to the directory is does not ask for any credentials?

Please make sure you've cleared your browser cache, and also try another browser just to rule out browser issues.