site gone .htaccess file

[AjiNIMC]

Hi all,

In morning I did this and copied to server using ftp and renamed it as .htaccess , was checking some mod_rewrite stuffs.

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^categoriesid([^.]+).* /categories.php?cat_id=$1
[T=application/x-httpd-php]

At that time it was working fine and after few hours when I check my site, it is not opening. So I deleted .htaccess file (still is not opening) , does it take time to reflect the effects or Did I do something wrong?

You suggestion and help will be highly appreciated.

Thanks
AjiNIMC

[paulhiles]

Hi AjiNIMC,

I'm not quite sure what you did with your .htaccess file earlier, but your site (idealwebtools.com) is displaying fine now.

Paul

[AjiNIMC]

Thanks paul it was a problem at local end ....I was viewing a copy of my site cached locally by my browser.

golden rule which I leanerd is

Flush your browser cache after any change to httpd.conf or .htaccess that might affect access control.

Now it works thanks a lot
AjiNIMC

[cyanide]

Yeah, I hate when that happens...

refresh, refresh, refresh lol

[Kenai Alaska]

I hate it when I do that.
Last summer I made a real As# out of myself over something so very similar. The poor client thought I was totally insane.


Please no more comments, I heard them all. :-)