How to edit your wordpress .htaccess file

I just prepared few posts on .htaccess hack and I feel before posting them it is much better to post a tutorial on how to edit .htaccess file.

In this post I will be using free FTP client FileZilla

Login to your host using FTP access.

Under FileZilla Menu options> select server> Force showing hidden files

Now navigate to your root folder of your domain in my case it is shoutmeloud.com and download your .htaccess file.

Before you   start editing your .htaccess file, I will highly recommend take a back up of your .htaccess file.

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If you are not familiar with wordpress I will recommend reading these two tutorials

Step by step guide to install self hosted wordpress blog

8 reasons why self hosted wordpress blog is better then free blogs

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