Showing .htaccess files in Transmit FTP

December 22nd, 2008 by Alex M Leave a reply »

I’ve been trying to work this one out for ages, but I’ve finally figured it out. I always like to be able to edit my .htaccess files, but seeing as they are hidden files, Transmit FTP would never show them. I always ended up going back to my PC and using CuteFTP Pro.

Turns out there is a simple option to show hidden files such as .htaccess in Transmit FTP. Simply select View -> Show Invisible Files.

So simple! I can’t believe I have missed this option all this time.

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  1. Jonno says:
    February 18, 2009 at 10:14 pm

    Nice one.

    I have a problem where Transmit doesn’t show hidden files in “their stuff”, only “my stuff”.

    Also, when I try to copy an .htaccess file to a site, Transmit gives me this error:

    ——-
    Could not upload “.htaccess”.

    Server said:
    .htaccess: Forbidden filename

    Error -160: could not start data transfer

    ——-

    Any ideas? :-)

  2. Alex M says:
    February 19, 2009 at 1:45 pm

    It sounds like your web host blocks the use of .htaccess files, unless of course the server is Windows, running IIS, in which case you can’t use .htaccess files.

  3. Niyi says:
    March 2, 2009 at 4:08 pm

    Thanks! My coworkers Transmit were all showing the .htaccess file except mine. Now i don’t feel so left out anymore :)

    Thanks!

  4. HazardousPaste says:
    March 18, 2009 at 12:03 am

    You just ended 2 hours of my misery trying to get custom permalinks working on NFS. THANK YOU!

  5. JessicaLes says:
    May 11, 2009 at 1:51 am

    Nice ! :) .. Thanks buddy..

  6. Manfred says:
    June 22, 2009 at 9:46 pm

    thanks !

    i also missed this feature.

  7. JJ says:
    July 25, 2009 at 3:28 am

    Jonno, name the file htaccess.txt, upload it, then rename it to .htaccess using your FTP client.

    Sorted!

  8. Dan says:
    September 18, 2009 at 6:55 am

    Thanks Alex. I had the exact same problem.

  9. Carl says:
    January 4, 2010 at 10:50 pm

    Alex,
    Thanks!
    A great tip.

    Carl.

  10. Andre says:
    February 16, 2010 at 12:00 am

    Haha! I was looking for the same thing for months! Thanks for the hind!!

    Regards

  11. Dirr Duhh says:
    March 6, 2010 at 6:04 am

    i feel stupid now. I have been looking for this for days

  12. Will says:
    April 20, 2010 at 10:54 am

    ha! I just wrote about this, I hope Panic makes an adjustment so it’s easier for new Transmit users to find.

  13. ABM Adnan says:
    April 30, 2010 at 3:10 am

    Thanks a lot for the tip.. I could not see .htaccess file on Transmit. So I had to use Fetch. But now I know .htaccess is also visible in Transmit :)

  14. Andrei says:
    June 8, 2010 at 1:52 pm

    Thanks for the tip, appreciate it.

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