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WordPress ships with a special file

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which allows you to customise
your urls.

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If you've already set this up before

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you will have done this from the

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Settings->Permalinks

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and then set the url structure

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to one of the options below.

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If all this worked fine

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then you can happily proceed

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with the htaccess maker part

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of AdminTools.

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You will find the htaccess maker

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in the security section.

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Remember if you've already been able

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to create without any modification

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the htaccess file then you can 

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happily proceed with this section.

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However, you should know

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that any changes made here have the

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possibility of completely blocking

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your entire web site

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so before you proceed you should make

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sure that you have FTP or some other

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hosting control panel file manager

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access to get your site

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back online. Just in case

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something goes wrong.

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If, when you used WordPress

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own htaccess file you had to

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make some edits for it to work on your

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web host you will find those

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right down at the bottom of this file.

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The most likely ones that you changed

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were to set the follow symlinks

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to yes and the base directory

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of your site from slash

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to some subdirectory.

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If you were able to make

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WordPress own htaccess file 

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work without any changes

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you can simply leave these as the default.

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If we scroll back to the top

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we can see this htaccess maker

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includes various options

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to enhance the basic security 

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of your web site.

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Each one of these is documented

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in the AdminTools documentation

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section of the akeebabackup.com

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web site.

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Remember, defaults are there for

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a very good reason and if you don't

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know what something is then you 
should leave it alone.

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In addition to some web ste security

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there is also somme addtional server

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protection that is provided.

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Some plugins may work in a non-standard

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way and you will have to provide

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exceptions to allow direct access

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to their files.

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In addition we have the opportunity

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to create some cusyom htaccess rules.

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If you don't know what these are

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don't worry about it, 

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it doesn't apply to you.

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But if you've had to create some already

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then this is where you will add them.

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If you had previously added some

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code to change your php version

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for example, you should copy
 that code here.

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Otherwise your host may default to a very

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old version of php.

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The final section

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Optimisation and Utility

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adds some addtional tweaks to your web site

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and you shouldn't need to change these.

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When yoou are happy with the settings

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click on the Save and Create htaccess button.

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Your new htaccess file has been written

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to the disk and a backup

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of the old one has been taken.

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At this point you must check to make

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sure that every part of your web site

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is working as it did before.

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It should, but as menitoned before

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it may be necessary to add some

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edxceptions for some of your plugins.

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If for some reason your web site is now

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completely blank for you 

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and you haave a 500 error

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you should use your ftp program

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or your web hosts file manager

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to locate the .htaccess

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file in the root of your web space.

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Rename this file.

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Perhaps to .htaccess.new

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to prevent it from working

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and your web site will reload.

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You should then return to AdminTools

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and the htaccess maker and review

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the settings until your web site

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is working perfectly.