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Aleksandr Antonov
Aleksandr Antonov
15,876 Points
Posted by Aleksandr Antonov
Aleksandr Antonov
15,876 Points

cant open .htaccess in Dreamweaver

Just started working on "Cleaning URLs with Rewrite Rules" and first video asks to create .htaccess file (which id did). However, Dreamwever errors with "Can't find valid editor for this file extension. ... Suggestions?

4 Answers

austenpayan
austenpayan
10,218 Points

Yeah I totally understand! but trust me, once you move on, you will be thankful. Sublime Text 2 has much more plugins, styles, and useful features than Dreamweaver.

austenpayan
austenpayan
10,218 Points
austenpayan
austenpayan
10,218 Points

Get another text editor =]

All of the tutorials here use Sublime Text 2. I think that would be a good route to go. I used to use dreamweaver and got random errors like this alot. I switched to sublime text 2, havent had an error since.

Aleksandr Antonov
Aleksandr Antonov
15,876 Points
Aleksandr Antonov
Aleksandr Antonov
15,876 Points

Yeah i thought so. I just didn't feel like adjusting to a new editor and just stick around with Dreamweaver :/

Kevin Korte
Kevin Korte
28,148 Points
Kevin Korte
Kevin Korte
28,148 Points

Mac or PC? I use dreamweaver for the coding (shame on me I know) but I usually use notepad on a PC to write a .htaccess file, or for Mac I downloaded a free app called text wrangler which does .htaccess files just fine.