Creating folders outside wordpress

Paul11 · 4 Feb 2013 at 11:11

i am trying to create a folder on FTP , IE /images

so i can go to www.mydomain.co.uk/images and see the files via the web

however i have wordpress installed and just get 404 error when trying to view the folder

someone mentioned might be a htaccess file problem

here is mine:

this is my htaccess file, not got a clue what to change ?

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress

gord · 4 Feb 2013 at 11:36

I don't think it should 404 from your htaccess. Are you trying to view the folder from your browser? If you put a file in that folder and access that direct does it still 404?

A lot of hosts will blanket sites with security such as limiting folder display permissions.

Try making a new .htaccess file in your images folder and put the below line in it. Don't amend your root .htaccess.

Code:

Options +Indexes

Paul11 · 4 Feb 2013 at 11:59

yes trying to get to folder with a browser.

ill check if a file in there still gives 404

will try that,

thank you

Paul11 · 4 Feb 2013 at 12:04

That worked !!

thank you gord, that has been driving me nuts

much appreciated