First, there is no reason that you have to use the suggested filename that Freeway auto-generates when you create a new page. The filename and the page title can (and should) be entirely uncoupled from one another.
Your home page can have the filename index.html
while that page has the title Welcome to Uncle Pat's House of Falafel
. That is why there are two separate fields in the Page Inspector – one for each property.
Secondly, the Mac will not let you create a file locally with the filename beginning in a dot, because such a file would immediately disappear (files that begin with a dot are traditionally invisible on Unix). You can enable the Finder to see hidden files with a command-line trick, but you really don’t need to do this. Simply name the file htaccess, use an FTP application to move it to your server, and rename it there. (It may immediately disappear, since your server is 99% guaranteed to also be Unix.) All the major FTP applications have the ability to show hidden files (it will be lurking in the View menu or similar) and once you turn that on, you should see the .htaccess file again.
It’s a good idea before fiddling with .htaccess files to turn on this (Show Hidden Files) feature. Many hosting providers automatically add an .htaccess to your Web root, and some use it to configure aspects of your service, so adding your own might overwrite that host-provided version, which could degrade your service – cause password-protected areas to be wide open again, log views to fail, etc.
Walter
On Apr 3, 2012, at 8:51 AM, ejw wrote:
Thanks, have changed the file names to those that i used in iWeb except i cannot change the index file name in Freeway. In iWeb we could name the Home page anything you wanted as iWeb created it’s own “Dummy” index.html, so i have uploaded a 1 line file with the redirect for this page. However, is the file supposed to be named .htaccess as i cannot insert the period before the “htaccess”
Thanks
John
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