htaccess help please?

[spid3r1987]

So did that fix everything?

yup
adding the |txt to filematch worked
google can now find meeee

[DrByte]

hmmm in my htaccess file that comes with ZC1.3.9g
added txt to the "<filesmatch>" part, seems i now have access to it

Um ... The "htaccess that comes with ZC1.3.9g" doesn't restrict robots.txt files ... because there IS NO .htaccess in the root folder of the ZC files, which would be where your robots.txt file is put.

So, it appears that you've copied content from the /includes/.htaccess into a custom /.htaccess file, and thus broke normal operation.

[spid3r1987]

Um ... The "htaccess that comes with ZC1.3.9g" doesn't restrict robots.txt files ... because there IS NO .htaccess in the root folder of the ZC files, which would be where your robots.txt file is put.

So, it appears that you've copied content from the /includes/.htaccess into a custom /.htaccess file, and thus broke normal operation.

so in ZC root, there should be NO .htaccess file??

[Website Rob]

Zen Cart default does not have an .htaccess file in the 'root' dir. but that doesn't mean you can't have one.

The .htaccess file for example that you provided in your original post is a custom .htaccess file that does go in your Document Root. If you include parts of other .htaccess files though, that are from other .htaccess files located in other directories, it could lead to problems such as you were experiencing.

[spid3r1987]

Zen Cart default does not have an .htaccess file in the 'root' dir. but that doesn't mean you can't have one.

The .htaccess file for example that you provided in your original post is a custom .htaccess file that does go in your Document Root. If you include parts of other .htaccess files though, that are from other .htaccess files located in other directories, it could lead to problems such as you were experiencing.

hmmm, i think the htaccess i originally posted was to do with the SEO that i was running, im no longer using this SEO...so dont need the htaccess anymore lol